Alejo Carpentier
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
|
Date: 2008
Alejo Carpentier , 1904-80, Cuban novelist and musicologist. As a political exile in Paris between 1928 and 1939, Carpentier was strongly influenced by Antonin Artaud, Jacques Prévert, and the surrealists. Reflecting his deep commitment to revolutionary politics, his novels explore the irrational elements of the Latin American world, its rich variety of cultures, and the possibility of its magical transformation. Widely regarded as one of the greatest modern Latin American writers, Carpentier was also important as a theorist of the region's literature and historian of its music. Among his works are Ecue-Yamba-O (1933), The Lost Steps (1953; tr. 1956), The Chase (1956; tr. 1989), The Kingdom of This World (1949, tr. 1957), The War of Time (1963, tr. 1970), Reasons of State (1974; tr. 1976), and The Harp and the Shadow (1979; tr. 1990).
Bibliography: See studies by M. Adams (1975), F. Janney (1981), D. Shaw (1985), and R. Echevarriá (1977, rev. ed. 1990).
Author not available, CARPENTIER, ALEJO.,
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press
For permission to reuse this article, contact Copyright Clearance Center.
Related articles from HighBeam Research:
|
Ese idioma: Alejo Carpentier's tongue-ties.(Critical essay)
Symposium; 9/22/2007; Firmat, Gustavo Perez; 7648 words;
... well-publicized discovery that Alejo Carpentier was born in Europe and that ... performances. Keywords: bilingualism, Alejo Carpentier, diglossia, extraterritoriality ... logrado la suprema libertad.--Alejo Carpentier, Viaje a la semilla IN AUTOBIOGRAFIA ...
|
|
James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition.(Book review)
The Romanic Review; 1/1/2006; Birkenmaier, Anke; 1065 words;
... Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg ... perspective on Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier's most important works. James ... la primavera, together with Carpentier's little known journalistic ...
|
|
The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition
Romanic Review; 1/1/2006; Birkenmaier, Anke; 1075 words;
... Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg ... perspective on Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier's most important works. James ... la primavera, together with Carpentier's little known journalistic ...
|
|
REVELACIONES SOBRE ALEJO CARPENTIER
El Nuevo Herald; 11/17/2004; Herrera, Adriana; 545 words;
... Herald 11-17-2004 La conferencia Alejo Carpentier en su centenario, impartida en ... Cancio, conocedor de la obra de Carpentier que tuvo el privilegio de leer ... una carta y la aproximacin a Carpentier reforzaron la necesidad de adentrarse ...
|
|
The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean/The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition
Cuban Studies; 1/1/2006; Cooper, Sara E; 2059 words;
... Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg ... excitement will be fulfilled. Not that Carpentier's work itself is prim, boring ... may have focused principally on Carpentier's oeuvre as a way to provide ...
|
|
The Kingdom of Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and Alejo Carpentier on the Haitian Revolution
Afro - Hispanic Review; 10/1/2006; Figueroa, Víctor; 6943 words;
... este mundo (1949), by the Cuban Alejo Carpentier. The contrast between James ... Imagination in C. L. R. James and Alejo Carpentier." Annals of Scholarhip 12.1 ... Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1992. Carpentier, Alejo. El reino de este mundo. San ...
|
|
Oedipal and Prodigal Returns in Alejo Carpentier and William Faulkner(*).
The Mississippi Quarterly; 6/22/1999; HANDLEY, GEORGE B.; 15345 words;
... over that knowledge. But in Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces [Explosion ... to the Mexican muralists to Alejo Carpentier himself, have returned from ... following editions of their novels: Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces (Barcelona ...
|
|
|
MEMORIA DE LA MITOMANÍA: centenario DE Alejo Carpentier
El Nuevo Herald; 12/26/2004; Santi, Enrico Mario; 1053 words;
... podido escribir nada sobre Alejo Carpentier. No es el nico escritor ... desde luego, su vida con Alejo Carpentier. Segn Eva, se conocieron ... ocasin Lina, la madre de Carpentier, le haba dicho que "el da que Alejo naci estaba nevando ...
|
|
Timothy J. Cox Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson.(Book Review)
International Fiction Review; 1/1/2003; Kadish, Doris; 681 words;
... novelists from Colombia (Manuel Zapata Olivella), Cuba (Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet), Guadeloupe (Maryse Conde, Andre and ... Conde's Moi, Tituba, sorciere ... noire de Salem, and Carpentier's El reino de este mundo, arguing that these three ...
|
|
|
EN EL CENTENARIO DE CARPENTIER, 'LOS PASOS PERDIDOS' REVISITADO
El Nuevo Herald; 1/9/2005; Granados, Ignacio; 446 words;
... Ignacio El Nuevo Herald 01-09-2005 Carpentier es un autor del que cualquier escritor ... literatura latinoamericana, toda la obra de Alejo Carpentier le ofrece un cuerpo desmesurado y asombroso ... del Realismo Mgico. Cualquier obra de Carpentier, imponente ms all de su personalidad ...
|
|
(book review)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 6/22/2001; Post, Christy; 449 words;
Alejo Carpentier. The Chase. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001. 122 pp. Paper: $14.95; Alejo Carpentier. The Lost Steps. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001. 278 pp. Paper: $15.95. Alejo Carpentier, who has been called the inventor of ...
|
|
Rereading A Cuban Master
The Washington Post; 12/24/1989; Alan Cheuse; 871 words;
THE CHASE By Alejo Carpentier Translated from the Spanish By Alfred ... has made the late Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier (who was born in Havana in 1904 ... Donoso in Obscene Bird of Night. Carpentier's political loyalties oddly enough ...
|
|
|
Recent Work in Cuban Studies
Cuban Studies; 1/1/2006; Chapa, Teresa; 26830 words;
... cmo el bisbol se hizo grande.) Carpentier, Alejo. Visin de Amrica. Havana: Editorial ... siglo xx en la novelstica de Alejo Carpentier. Madrid: Vision Net, 2004. 249 ... Diccionario de conceptos de Alejo Carpentier. Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas ...
|
|
LATIN AMERICAN NOVELISTS PONDER INNOCENCE AND GUILT
The Boston Globe; 11/15/1989; Robert Taylor, Globe Staff; 589 words;
... Dutton, 169 pp., $18.95 THE CHASE By Alejo Carpentier Translated by Alfred Mac Adam Farrar ... in Spanish as "El Acoso" in 1956, Alejo Carpentier's compact novel concerns a revolutionary ... 11/15,10:09 WEDBOOK1 Caption: PHOTO ALEJO CARPENTIER
|
|
(book reviews)
The Nation; 10/21/1991; Sale, Kirkpatrick; 2153 words;
THE HARP AND THE SHADOW. By Alejo Carpentier Mercury House. 159pp 1695. We ... realist polemic (by the late Alejo Carpentier), an arduous literary exercise ... of the Admiral. That permits Carpentier, a Cuban, to make his case against ...
|
See all results from premium newspaper and magazine articles, images, maps and more at HighBeam Research.
Related articles from newspapers, magazines and other sources:
Two paths to the boom: Carpentier, Asturias, and the performative split.
The Modern Language Review; 10/1/1999; Henighan, Stephen; 9776 words;
|
Magical realism and the legacy of German idealism.
The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2006; Warnes, Christopher; 6256 words;
|
Colonial tropes and postcolonial tricks: rewriting the tropics in the novela de la selva.
The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2006; Wylie, Lesley; 8050 words;
|
Todos vuelven con Rubén Blades: tras 19 años de ausencia, Rubén Blades actuó en Lima-Perú. Más de quince mil personas de todas las edades, de todas las condiciones sociales y todos los gustos musicales, se dieron cita.(cantante)
Latin Beat Magazine; 12/1/2003; Pérez Aldave, Agustín; 1073 words;
|
Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Gibara, 1929--Londres, 2005).(Artículo breve)(Obituario)
Latin Beat Magazine; 8/1/2005; Tamargo, Luis; 235 words;
|
Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie.(Book Review)
MELUS; 3/22/2005; Saumell, Rafael E.; 807 words;
|
Postcolonial Perspectives on the Cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.(Book Review)
The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2003; Sharman, Adam; 424 words;
|
Big Daddy: the dictator novel and the liberation of Latin America.(The Feast of the Goat)
Reason; 8/1/2002; Moses, Michael Valdez; 3301 words;
|
Levels of reality.(Letter to the Editor)
The Literary Review; 3/22/2002; Vargas Llosa, Mario; 3699 words;
|
At the crossroads: disability and trauma in The Farming of Bones.
MELUS; 9/22/2006; Hewett, Heather; 7955 words;
|
|
|