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The Kingdom of This World ( Spanish: El reino de este mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957.
Dec 14, 2023 · One of the people most responsible for introducing magical realism to Latin America was Alejo Carpentier (1904-80). Carpentier’s father was French and his mother was Russian but he grew up in...
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont ( Spanish pronunciation: [ karpanˈtje], French pronunciation: [ kaʁpɑ̃tje]; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.
Apr 15, 2022 · Alejo Carpentier in Paris, September 13, 1979 (Getty Images) April 15, 2022. This is a subscriber-exclusive edition of Unsettled Territory, a newsletter about culture, law, history, and finding...
Sep 18, 2023 · Alejo Carpentier wields two grand, universal, eternal principles in the conception and shaping of this, one of his finest works, which for many readers is the most alluring of his novels thanks to its plot, characters, uncertainties, and exotic locales.
Alejo Carpentier. 157 books455 followers. Follow. Writings of Cuban author, musicologist, and diplomat Alejo Carpentier influenced the development of magical realism; his novels include Lord, Praised Be Thou! (1933) and The Kingdom of This World (1949).
The work of the Cuban novelist and musicologist Alejo Carpentier (1901–1980) was a nodal point in the debate about how to define Latin American uniqueness. His fiction struggled to identify this Latin American cultural uniqueness within the long-standing history of Latin American dependence on and mimicry of Europe – in essence, Paris.
