In this his second volume of his collected works collection, Carlos Fuentes contains two of his most significant works on Mexico City: la region mas transparente and Agua Quemada. This fist novel was published by FCE in 1958 and does not show a metropolis after radical transformations in its social, political and economical life. This second Novel also published by FCE in 1981 are portraits that form as a group a more complex image by its fragmentary quality, but at the same time they reflect the deterioration of the one that was called "the City of the Palaces, " become place of lacks off and "unpunished violence." These works contributes to reveal the city as the character of the literature.