Name: El Reino de Este Mundo (Coleccion Biblioteca Juvenil) (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9786074571240

portada El Reino de Este Mundo (Coleccion Biblioteca Juvenil) (in Spanish)

El Reino de Este Mundo (Coleccion Biblioteca Juvenil) (in Spanish)

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Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Lectorum Mexico

Synopsis "El Reino de Este Mundo (Coleccion Biblioteca Juvenil) (in Spanish)"

Novela calificada por Mario Vargas Llosa como una de las mas acabadas que haya producido la lengua espanola, EL REINO DE ESTE MUNDO (1949) recrea de forma incomparable los acontecimientos que, a caballo entre los siglos xviii y xix, precedieron y siguieron a la independencia haitiana. Estimulado por la prodigiosa historia original y valiendose de un magistral dominio de los recursos narrativos, Alejo Carpentier (19041980) embarca al lector, merced al poder de su palabra, en un mundo exuberante, desaforado y legendario en el que brillan con luz propia el licantropo Mackandal, en quien se conjugan la rebelion popular y los poderes sobrenaturales, y el dictador Henri Christophe, quien alumbro en su palacio de SansSouci y la ciudadela de La FerriÃÂ¨re arquitecturas dignas de Piranesi.

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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