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Alejo Carpentier

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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... Read more
magic realism
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... primarily Latin American literary movement that arose in the 1960s. The term has been attributed to the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier , who first applied it to Latin-American fiction in 1949. Works of magic realism mingle realistic portrayals of ordinary ... Read more
Gabriel García Márquez
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... town, and nation and reflecting the influence of writers such as Jorges Luis Borges , Miguel Angel Asturias , and Alejo Carpentier , his work focuses on the physical and moral travail of coastal Colombia, which is given universal meaning in his ... Read more

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