Name: Ensayos Selectos (Carpentier) (Letras al sur del rio Bravo) (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9789500514248

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Ensayos Selectos (Carpentier) (Letras al sur del rio Bravo) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Corregidor

Synopsis "Ensayos Selectos (Carpentier) (Letras al sur del rio Bravo) (in Spanish)"

Los ensayos de Alejo Carpentier que integran esta selección recorren un arco de treinta años; en ellos se recuperan reflexiones que van desde 1948, un momento de afirmación en el oficio, hasta la conferencia dictada en la Universidad de Yale en 1979, el tiempo de la gloria pero también el de la cercana muerte en París en 1980. Despliegan la madurez de quien en 1922, a los 18 años, se había iniciado como cronista cultural en las revistas y los diarios más populares de la Habana. Los recorren su pasión por la música, la pintura, la literatura y la cultura universal y una vocación americanista nunca desmentida aunque pueda ser objeto de detalle.

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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