This is perhaps Fuentes鈥檚 most respected novel and one considered to be a milestone in the Latin American literary movement. The novel follows the thoughts of Artemio Cruz, a powerful and corrupt soldier, politician, journalist, and lover, as he lays dying on his deathbed, immobilized and delirious, hovering between life and death. 鈥淭he Death of Artemio Cruz鈥 was dedicated to sociologist C. Wright Mills, a friend of Fuentes, and modeled partly on Orson Welles鈥檚 1941 movie 鈥Citizen Kane.鈥