Name: El Acoso
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9786071683090

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Fondo de Cultura Económica

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9786071683090

Edited in

México

Edition No.

2024

Synopsis "El Acoso"

En La Habana de 1933, durante la dictadura de Gerardo Machado, un estudiante de arquitectura se refugia en un teatro para huir de sus perseguidores. Durante los 46 minutos que dura la ejecución de la tercera sinfonía de Beethoven, la Eroica, los últimos en la vida del protagonista, el joven acosado realiza un peregrinaje a través de episodios inconexos sus relaciones amorosas y familiares, sus inquietudes religiosas, su militancia política, el arbitrio entre la delación y la grandeza, donde Carpentier traza el retrato fidedigno de una sociedad atada a tradiciones y represiones apuntaladas en el simbolismo cristiano. El traslape de voces, el monólogo interior como sintaxis melódica y el desgarramiento de la consciencia tanto de acción, como discursivo hacen de la novela el equivalente a una composición musical.

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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