Carlos Fuentes
Terra Nostra

FOR SYLVIA

What does that old spook want…?

Goya, Los caprichos

Fervid in her fetid rags. It is she, the first

False mother of many, like you, aggrieved

By her, and for her, grieving.

Cernuda, Ser de Sansueña

Transformed utterly:

A terrible beauty is born …

Yeats, Easter, 1916

CHARACTERS

THE LORDS

FELIPE, the Fair, married to

JOANNA REGINA, the Mad Lady

FELIPE, El Señor, son and heir to the former, married to

ISABEL, La Señora (Elizabeth Tudor), his English cousin

THE COURT

THE BASTARDS

THE PILGRIM, son of Felipe the Fair out of Celestina

DON JUAN, son of Felipe the Fair out of Isabel, La Señora

THE IDIOT PRINCE, son of Felipe the Fair out of a she-wolf

THE DREAMERS

LUDOVICO, student of theology

PEDRO, peasant and sailor

SIMON, monk

CELESTINA, peasant girl, witch, and procuress

MIHAIL-BEN-SAMA, wanderer

DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA, knight-errant

SANCHO PANZA, his squire

THE WORKERS

JERONIMO, blacksmith and husband to Celestina

MARTIN, son of serfs from Navarre

NUÑO, son of a foot soldier of the Moorish frontier

CATILINON, rogue from the streets of Valladolid

THE MEDITERRANEANS

THE FLEMISH

THE MISTRESS of the Beguine Monastery, Bruges

SCHWESTER KATREI, possessed Beghard

HIERONYMUS BOSCH, painter and adherent to the Adamite sect

THE DUKE OF BRABANT

THE INDIANS

THE LORD OF MEMORY

THE LADY OF THE BUTTERFLIES

THE FAT PRINCE

THE WHITE LORDS OF HELL

THE LORD OF THE GREAT VOICE

THE PARISIANS

POLLO PHOIBEE, sandwich man

CELESTINA, sidewalk painter

LUDOVICO, flagellant

SIMON, monk, leader of the penitents

MME ZAHARIA, concierge

RAPHAEL DE VALENTIN, man-about-town

VIOLETTA GAUTIER, consumptive courtesan

JAVERT, police inspector

JEAN VALJEAN, former convict

OLIVEIRA, Argentine exile

BUENDIA, Colombian colonel

SANTIAGO ZAVALITA, Peruvian journalist

ESTEBAN and SOFIA, Cuban cousins

HUMBERTO, deaf-and-dumb Chilean

CUBA VENEGAS, Cuban torch singer

THE VALKYRIE, Lithuanian benefactress

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