Where the Air Is Clear (Spanish: La región más transparente) is a 1958 novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. His first novel, it became an "instant classic"[1] and made Fuentes into an immediate "literary sensation".[2] The novel's success allowed Fuentes to leave his job as a diplomat and become a full-time author.[2]
The novel is built around the story of Federico Robles – who has abandoned his revolutionary ideals to become a powerful financier – but also offers "a kaleidoscopic presentation" of vignettes of Mexico City, making it as much a "biography of the city" as of an individual man.[3] It was celebrated not only for its prose, which made heavy use of interior monologue and explorations of the subconscious,[2] but also for its "stark portrait of inequality and moral corruption in modern Mexico".[1]
In November 2008, the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española) together with Spanish academies from all the world, released a special edition of the book to celebrate its 50th anniversary.[4]
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It's time to clear the air. You may have heard that it could be sunspots and changes in solar output that are responsible for temperature trends over recent decades. The sun experiences a sun spot cycle about every eleven years. The peaks show when sunspot numbers are at their highest. A higher number of sunspots, means more solar radiation reaches the Earth causing the Earth to warm. However, there is no evidence that variations in solar output are responsible for the rapid warming of the past few decades. Average solar output has changed very little since nineteen-eighty, and has actually declined very slightly. Solar physicists expect a continuation of this trend, and while its influence should cause average global temperatures to decline, such an impact is expected to be very minor. The best available science therefore allows us to conclude that the earth's warming trend, over the past few decades, is not caused by changes in solar output. Hopefully the air has now been cleared on this one.
References
- ^ a b Husna Haq (May 16, 2012). "Carlos Fuentes: 5 best novels". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ^ a b c Anthony DePalma (May 15, 2012). "Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Man of Letters, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ Genevieve Slomski (November 2010). "Where the Air Is Clear". Masterplots. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
- ^ "La región más transparente". Real Academia Española. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
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