Name: Visión de América (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9788413370323

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Editorial Verbum

Year

2019

Language

Spanish

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9788413370323

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Visión de América (in Spanish)"

Visión de América recoge un grupo de textos en que Alejo Carpentier, desde una mirada interdisciplinaria, interpreta aspectos de la historia, los mitos, los hombres, la naturaleza, la cultura de los pueblos al sur del río Bravo. Este volumen, iniciado con la serie periodística que atestigua los recorridos del escritor cubano por recónditos territorios venezolanos –experiencias que significaron la consolidación de su percepción sobre la América continental y el germen de su novela Los pasos perdidos–, se complementa asimismo con otros textos empeñados en caracterizar el área caribeña. Resultan todos testimonios de un pensamiento integrador identitario sobre la región, desarrollado en artículos, conferencias e intervenciones públicas. Son, sin duda, muestra del activo y continuado proceso de aprehensión del continente americano que mantuvo Carpentier durante toda su vida, nutrido por estudios pertenecientes a saberes diversos. Artífice de la palabra en cualquier género, la garra del narrador se filtra sutilmente en estos materiales, permeados de múltiples recursos literarios que ofrecen una lectura enriquecedora y placentera, ajena a la erosión del tiempo.

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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