Name: Concierto Barroco (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9789707320383

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Lectorum

Synopsis "Concierto Barroco (in Spanish)"

Esta es una novela deliciosa, propositiva, liberadora. En ella, el escritor utiliza los recursos propios del barroco: la parodia, el artificio, la hiperbole, le enumeracion proliferante, con mayor liberalidad. Rompe con las ataduras de la cronologia historica y adquiere un extraordinario sentido del humor. Cuenta la historia de la puesta en escena de una opera de Vivaldi, en la qu ese narra la derrota de Moctezuma por las fuerzas espa;olas que capitanea Hernan Cortes. Asi, el autor enfrenta dos culturas, dos epocas, dos mundos, de cuya contraposicion surge en la optica carpenteriana, lo real maravilloso.

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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