Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980)
Autore di The Kingdom of This World
Sull'Autore
Alejo Carpentier was director of Cuba's National Press, which published many millions of volumes in an ambitious program, and for some years was Cuba's ambassador to France. A composer and musicologist, he consciously applied the principles of musical composition in much of his work. Imprisoned for mostra altro political activity in 1928, he escaped with the aid of Robert Desnos, a French surrealist poet, to Paris, where he joined the literary circle of surrealists Louis Aragon, Tristan Tzara, and Paul Eluard. According to Carpentier surrealism influenced his style and helped him to see "aspects of American life he had not previously seen, in their telluric, epic, and poetic contexts." Carpentier articulated a theory of marvelous reality, "lo real maravilloso," with an almost surrealistic sense of the relationship among unrelated, or antithetical, elements, often from distinct ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The Lost Steps (1953) takes the form of a diary of a Cuban musician and intellectual who seeks escape from civilization during his trip to a remote Amazon village in search of native musical instruments. The short stories "The Road to Santiago," "Journey to the Seed," and "Similar to Night," present time as subjective rather than historical, and capable of remarkable personal variations. In his novel The Pursuit, printed in The War of Time (1958), whose title is an allusion to a line from Lope de Vega defining a man as "a soldier in the war of time, presents time similarly. "The Kingdom of This World (1949) deals with the period of Henri Christophe and the slave revolts in Haiti. Its circular structure presents the inevitable recurrence of tyranny and the need for eternal struggle against it. Reasons of State (1976), is another notable addition to the gallery of Latin American fictional portraits of dictators. It uses Carpentier's love for baroque style and parody to raise complex questions about the nature of revolution. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Alejo Carpentier
Obras completas. Vol. 2. El reino de este mundo. Los pasos perdidos (Spanish Edition) (2000) 24 copie
La aprendiz de bruja ; Concierto barroco ; El arpa y la sombra (Obras completas de Alejo Carpentier) (Spanish Edition) (1983) 6 copie
Cartas a toutouche.correspondencia de alejo carpentier a su madre lina valmont,paris,1928-1937. (2010) 6 copie
Villa Lobos 2 copie
Alejo Carpentier Ensayos 2 copie
Pintura cubana contemporánea 1 copia
Cronicas caribeñas 1 copia
Narrativa completa. Tomo III 1 copia
Muzyka na Kubie 1 copia
Wojna czasu 1 copia
O REINO DÊSTE MUNDO 1 copia
El reino de este mundo 1 copia
לטובת המדינה 1 copia
recopilacion de textos sobres 1 copia
El adjetivo y sus arrugas 1 copia
3 Relatos 1 copia
Libro del recuerdo 1 copia
Imparatia lumii acesteia 1 copia
Finale auf Kuba 1 copia
Cronicas Caribenas.de Alejo Carpentier.seleccion Y Prologo De Emilio Jorge Rodriguez. (2012) 1 copia
Histoires de lune 1 copia
La Danse sacrale de Alejo Carpentier,René L.-F. Durand (Traduction) ( 4 novembre 1980 ) (1705) 1 copia
Crónicas. Tomos I y II 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana : de la conquista al siglo XX (1997) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Maestros de la literatura universal. Tomo II: Latinoamérica — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Cuentos fantásticos y de ciencia ficción en América Latina — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Carpentier, Alejo
- Nome legale
- Carpentier y Valmont, Alejo
- Data di nascita
- 1904-12-26
- Data di morte
- 1980-04-24
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Cuba
- Luogo di nascita
- Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Luogo di morte
- Paris, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Havana, Cuba
Caracas, Venezuela - Istruzione
- University of Havana
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
novelist
musicologist
essayist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1977)
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1975)
Utenti
Recensioni
As revolution sweeps back and forth across the Atlantic at the conclusion of the 18th century, two Cuban cousins witness a world trembling between rebirth and regression.
Sofia is the most perfect literary protagonist I can remember reading this semester. I suppose you could make a case for Victor or Esteban dominating the narrative, but Sofia is clearly the narrative's center: she is the one who develops a firm and unyielding moral code, and it is only through her that Esteban recovers from his post-Victor cynicism. Even aside from its artistic ambition, Explosion in a Cathedral is stuffed with technical achievements, ranging from how the three narratives (Carlos, Sofia, Esteban) envelope one another to the single point where the narrative jumps from Sofia to Esteban. In the leap, the narrative elides a pivotal event so effortlessly that the reader only realizes the omission alongside Esteban a hundred pages later.… (altro)
Sofia is the most perfect literary protagonist I can remember reading this semester. I suppose you could make a case for Victor or Esteban dominating the narrative, but Sofia is clearly the narrative's center: she is the one who develops a firm and unyielding moral code, and it is only through her that Esteban recovers from his post-Victor cynicism. Even aside from its artistic ambition, Explosion in a Cathedral is stuffed with technical achievements, ranging from how the three narratives (Carlos, Sofia, Esteban) envelope one another to the single point where the narrative jumps from Sofia to Esteban. In the leap, the narrative elides a pivotal event so effortlessly that the reader only realizes the omission alongside Esteban a hundred pages later.… (altro)
Liste
My TBR (2)
music to my eyes (2)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 116
- Opere correlate
- 17
- Utenti
- 5,239
- Popolarità
- #4,758
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 109
- ISBN
- 466
- Lingue
- 18
- Preferito da
- 14
Con este libro creo haberme reconciliado con la narrativa. Desde que he empezado a leer todos los libros pendientes de mi biblioteca, donde la mayoría son de narrativa, tenía la asignatura pendiente de poder comprender qué es la narrativa para mí. Por supuesto que he disfrutado de las lecturas anteriores, pero Alejo Carpentier, con su prosa plagada de detalles, metáforas y magia, es la única que me ha conquistado durante 500 páginas. No me pasaba esto desde que leí Solenoide de Cărtărescu. Tampoco quiero llenar de elogios el libro, pero me ha parecido sublime la construcción del relato y el falso engaño del protagonismo. Constantemente se nos presenta en la novela multitud de personajes que pueden llegar a tener cierta relevancia en lo textual, pero siempre se vuelve al leitmotiv de la historia: Esteban. La labor de documentación histórica que hay detrás también es notable –de hecho es la más interesante, pues se convierte en ficción histórica. Es ahora cuando cojo ilusión de nuevo de que en mis manos caiga algún libro más de narrativa. Además, es gracioso haberlo leído esta edición de Clásicos de El País, ya que las erratas y errores que uno encuentra son adorables. Estas fuerzas renovadas me plantean tantas preguntas sobre la escritura. ¿Quizá lea el libro de Irene Vallejo? Me veo capaz de todo ahora.… (altro)