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Alejo Carpentier - The Pilgrim at Home

English · Paperback / Softback

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Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history, art, music, and literature of Latin America and Europe. Carpentier's novels and stories are the enabling discourse of today's Latin American narrative, and his interpretation of Latin American history has been among the most influential. Carpentier was the first to provide a comprehensive view of Caribbean history that centered on the contribution of Africans, above and beyond the differences created by European cultures and languages. Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home, first published in 1977 and updated for this edition, covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two.

González Echevarría offers detailed readings of the works La música en Cuba, The Kingdom of This World, The Lost Steps, and Explosion in a Cathedral. In a new concluding chapter, he takes up Carpentier's last years, his relationship with the Cuban revolutionary regime, and his last two novels, El arpa y la sombra and La consagración de la primavera, in which Carpentier reviewed his life and career.

List of contents










  • Preface
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • 1. Preamble: A Post-Carpenterian Reflection
  • 2. Lord, Praised Be Thou
  • 3. Fugitive Island
  • 4. The Parting of the Waters
  • 5. Memories of the Future
  • 6. The Pilgrim’s Last Journeys
  • Bibliography
  • Select Bibliography of Carpentier’s Works
  • Works Cited
  • Bibliographical Supplement to the Paperback Edition
  • Carpentier’s Works
  • Works Cited
  • Index


About the author










Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures at Yale University.


Product details

Authors Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto González Echevarría, Roberto Gonzbalez Echevarrbia
Publisher University Of Texas Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.1991
 
EAN 9780292704176
ISBN 978-0-292-70417-6
No. of pages 338
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
Weight 550 g
Series Texas Pan American Series
Texas Pan American Series
Texas Pan American
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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