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Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980)

Autor(a) de The Kingdom of This World

114+ Works 5,167 Membros 109 Críticas 14 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos

Obras por Alejo Carpentier

The Kingdom of This World (1949) 1,184 exemplares
Os passos perdidos (1953) 1,107 exemplares
El siglo de las luces (1962) 990 exemplares
Baroque Concerto (1976) 268 exemplares
Reasons of state (1974) 266 exemplares
The Chase (1956) 240 exemplares
Guerra del tiempo (1963) 216 exemplares
The Harp and the Shadow (1979) 213 exemplares
La consagración de la primavera (1978) 118 exemplares
Ecue-Yamba-O (1933) 64 exemplares
Music in Cuba (1946) 45 exemplares
Cuentos completos (1979) 42 exemplares
La ciudad de las columnas (1970) 37 exemplares
L'Avana, amore mio (1996) 16 exemplares
The Road to Santiago (1972) 11 exemplares
Visión de América (1999) 11 exemplares
Journey Back to the Source (2003) 10 exemplares
Dos novelas (1976) 10 exemplares
Cuentos (1977) 9 exemplares
El derecho de asilo (1995) 8 exemplares
Tientos y Diferencias (1967) 7 exemplares
Ese Musico Que LLevo Dentro (1995) 7 exemplares
Los Pasos Recobrados (2003) 6 exemplares
Narrativa completa II (1995) 6 exemplares
CRONICAS. (1984) 5 exemplares
Novelas y relatos (1974) 4 exemplares
Crónicas : II (1986) 4 exemplares
Relatos (1901) 4 exemplares
Les Élus et autres nouvelles (2004) 3 exemplares
Entrevistas (1985) 3 exemplares
Cuentos cubanos (1974) 2 exemplares
Diario (1951-1957) (2013) 2 exemplares
Die Romane (2011) 2 exemplares
Letra y solfa (1997) 2 exemplares
Crónicas habaneras (2018) 2 exemplares
Siitilma riik (2017) 2 exemplares
El acoso ; El derecho de asilo (1978) 2 exemplares
Narrativa completa. Tomo I (2005) 2 exemplares
Villa Lobos 2 exemplares
Kraljevstvo ovoga svijeta : (2023) 1 exemplar
Wojna czasu 1 exemplar
Selección de ensayos (2003) 1 exemplar
Muzyka na Kubie 1 exemplar
Szaleństwo i metoda (1980) 1 exemplar
Harfa i cień (1982) 1 exemplar
Valgustuse sajand (2022) 1 exemplar
Histoires de lune 1 exemplar
Makunaíma/Los Advertidos (1987) 1 exemplar
Finale auf Kuba 1 exemplar
Libro del recuerdo 1 exemplar
Essais littéraires (2003) 1 exemplar
3 Relatos 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America (1973) — Contribuidor — 152 exemplares
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America (1991) — Contribuidor — 147 exemplares
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Contribuidor — 111 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (1997) — Contribuidor — 105 exemplares
Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (1602) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Masterworks of Latin American Short Fiction: Eight Novellas (1996) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
Mejores relatos latinoamericanos (1998) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Vestenfor måne : 56 fantastiske fortellinger fra hele verden (1972) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Buena Vista (2000) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Seven stories from Spanish America (1968) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Повести магов (2002) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Cuentos de Cuba socialista (1976) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
El cuento literario (2008) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Carpentier, Alejo
Nome legal
Carpentier y Valmont, Alejo
Data de nascimento
1904-12-26
Data de falecimento
1980-04-24
Localização do túmulo
Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Cuba
Local de nascimento
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Local de falecimento
Paris, France
Locais de residência
Havana, Cuba
Caracas, Venezuela
Educação
University of Havana
Ocupações
journalist
novelist
musicologist
essayist
Prémios e menções honrosas
Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1977)
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1975)

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"Eu pertenço a um país pequeno: Cuba, onde, no momento mais difícil da ascensão do socialismo, Fidel Castro, reunido com os escritores e artistas do seu país, lhes disse, talvez por outras palavras: "Façam o que quiserem, exprimam-se como quiserem, trabalhem como quiserem, mas não trabalhem contra a revolução"
 
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Obras
114
Also by
17
Membros
5,167
Popularidade
#4,812
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
109
ISBN
466
Línguas
18
Marcado como favorito
14

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