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Alejo Carpentier

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 25 1904

Died: 2323 04 19801980

Alejo Carpentier Blagoobrasoff, alias Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist, who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its "boom" period.

Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of politics and literature. Best known for his novels, Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. Although born in Switzerland, he grew up in Havana, Cuba, and was strongly self-identified as Cuban throughout his life. He was jailed and exiled and he lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the 1959 revolution. He died in Paris in 1980 and was buried in Havana.

Alejo Carpentier

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: December 25 1904

Died: 2323 04 19801980

Alejo Carpentier Blagoobrasoff, alias Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist, who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its "boom" period.

Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of politics and literature. Best known for his novels, Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. Although born in Switzerland, he grew up in Havana, Cuba, and was strongly self-identified as Cuban throughout his life. He was jailed and exiled and he lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the 1959 revolution. He died in Paris in 1980 and was buried in Havana.

Books from Alejo Carpentier

The Kingdom of This World

3.8/5 ( ratings)

El siglo de las luces

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Concierto barroco

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Viaje a la semilla

Los pasos perdidos

3.9/5 ( ratings)

El arpa y la sombra

3.8/5 ( ratings)

El recurso del método

4.1/5 ( ratings)

La consagración de la primavera

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Guerra del tiempo y otros relatos

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Chase

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

El acoso

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Guerra del tiempo

3.8/5 ( ratings)

If I Could Write This in Fire: An Anthology of Literature from the Caribbean

1808: El dos de mayo, tres miradas

رمان امریکای لاتین: در گفت‌وگو با رامون چائو

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Рассказы магов

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Guerra del tiempo, El acoso y otros relatos (Obras completas de Alejo Carpentier, #3)

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Literatura e Consciência Política na América Latina

Ufficio di tenebre e altri cuentos

4.5/5 ( ratings)