Name: Concierto Barroco (spanish Edition) (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9781496038814

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Concierto Barroco (spanish Edition) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Createspace

Year

2014

Language

Spanish

Pages

136

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781496038814

Synopsis "Concierto Barroco (spanish Edition) (in Spanish)"

En esta novela deliciosa, propositiva y liberadora, el autor utiliza los recursos propios del barroco: la parodia, el artificio, la hipérbole y la enumeración proliferante, con mayor liberalidad; rompe con las ataduras de la cronología histórica y adquiere un extraordianrio sentido del humor. El libro cuenta la historia de la puesta en escena de una ópera de Antonio Vivaldi, estrenada en el teatro Sant Angelo de Venecia, en el otoño de 1733, la cual narra la derrota de Moctezuma por las fuerzas españolas que capitanea Hernán Cortés. El tema no puede ser más propicio para la pluma de Carpentier, pues se trata de una ópera barroca, que permite además, enfrentar dos historias, dos culturas, dos mundos -América y Europa-, de cuya contraposición surge, en la óptica carpenteriana, precisamente lo real maravilloso. Novela que da cuenta del gusto del autor por la música, una segunda vocación que, junto a la arquitectura, subyace en toda su obra y que ya se había manifestado con singular vehemencia en Los pasos perdidos.

Alejo Carpentier

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Alejo Carpentier was born in Havana in 1904, son of a French architect who had settled in the Antilles two years earlier. In 1921 he abandoned his architecture studies and professionally devoted himself to journalism, joining the then-called "Grupo Minorista". In 1924 he was appointed director of the magazine Carteles. Imprisoned for political reasons during the Machado regime, he began writing Ecue-Yamba-O. That same year he participated in the founding of the magazine "Avance". In 1928 he clandestinely embarked for France, where he remained until 1939. Returning to Cuba, he got a job in radio. He traveled to various countries in America and settled in Venezuela from 1945 until 1959, when he returned to Cuba, where he directed the National Publisher. From the end of 1966 he resided in Paris, where he held an important diplomatic position, until his death in 1980. Carpentier published the fiction books Ecue-Yamba-O, The Kingdom of This World (first edition, 1949), The Lost Steps (1953), War of Time (1956), The Chase (1958; Seix Barral, 1987), The Century of the Lights (1952; Seix Barral, 1965), Reasons of State (1974), Baroque Concert (1974), The Consecration of Spring (1978) and The Harp and the Shadow (1979).

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