Fernando del Paso Morante audioⓘ (April 1, 1935 – November 14, 2018)[1][2] was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet.

The novel, based upon the lives of Maximilian and Carlota and the French Intervention in Mexico, is called by the author a "historiographic" novel.

This encyclopedic novel is remarkable in that, instead of trying to discover the "truth" about "what really happened," the author presents a number of possible versions of important and controversial events.

[citation needed] Del Paso claimed influence from a variety of authors including Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Erskine Caldwell, and Thomas Wolfe.

This library is the largest in the western region of Mexico with a collection of 120,000 volumes and a capacity for 800 simultaneous users.