Second Person Narrative in "Aura"

I am not a fan of second person narrator. By addressing the reader as 'You', the author is forcing the readers to put themselves in the place of the character, even if the character is unrelatable. This is what happened to me when I was reading Carlos Fuentes' "Aura". From the first few moments in the short novel, Felipe feels like a shell of a character. He is very indifferent and passive. He only takes action and goes to the house once he realizes that no one else will. Once he is in the house, he takes it all in with too easily. He complies with everything the old lady tells him to do, and he ignores the darkness and the weird things happening around him. Even the way he falls in love with Aura seems , somehow, pre-determined. Aura barely speaks at him, and Felipe seems obsessed with her eyes. By the end of the novel I realized that maybe Felipe had that empty feeling about him, because he was only a ghost or reincarnation of someone else, of General Llorente. Even so, the way the story is told made me feel uneasy most of the time.

The use of second person narrator in "Aura" seems to me more of an aesthetic/stylish choice than a technique that adds to the overall message of the story.