Name: Écue-Yamba-Ó! (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9788446024453

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Ediciones Akal

Year

2010

Language

Spanish

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8446024454

ISBN13

9788446024453

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Écue-Yamba-Ó! (in Spanish)"

Primera novela de Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), ÉCUE-YAMBA-Ó (1927) prolonga, por un lado, los métodos y temas del naturalismo típicos de la literatura latinoamericana durante las dos primeras décadas del siglo xx, también acusa, por otro, la influencia innovadora de las preocupaciones estéticas vanguardistas, especialmente del surrealismo francés. Si es cierto que el relato de la vida de Menegildo Cue refleja las condiciones sociales en que se desarrolla la existencia de los trabajadores negros en los ingenios de azúcar de la época, sin embargo la peculiar concepción del mundo del personaje, resultado del sincretismo religioso propio del ámbito antillano, inaugura también la búsqueda de una realidad en que la magia y el mito alternan con lo cotidiano, anticipando así la visión de lo real maravilloso de la narrativa posterior de Carpentier.

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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