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The Lost Steps (Paperback): Alejo Carpentier The Lost Steps (Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier; Translated by Adrian Nathan West; Introduction by Leonardo Padura
R442 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura A Penguin Classic Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants nothing more than to tear his life up from the root. He soon finds his escape hatch: a university-sponsored mission to South America to look for indigenous musical instruments in one of the few areas of the world not yet touched by civilization. Retracing the steps of time, he voyages with his lover into a land that feels outside of history, searching not just for music but ultimately for himself, and turning away from modernity toward the very heart of what makes us human.

Music In Cuba (Paperback): Alejo Carpentier Music In Cuba (Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier; Edited by Timothy Brennan
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1946 and never before available in English, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical history, it is a work of literature. Drawing on such primary documents as church circulars and musical scores, Carpentier encompasses European-style elite Cuban music as well as the popular rural Spanish folk and urban Afro-Cuban music.

The Kingdom of This World (Paperback): Alejo Carpentier The Kingdom of This World (Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier; Translated by Pablo Medina; Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
R401 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R58 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Kingdom of This World (Paperback, Pbk. ed): Alejo Carpentier The Kingdom of This World (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
Alejo Carpentier; Translated by Harriet De Onis; Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
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R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.

El reino de este mundo (Spanish, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Alejo Carpentier El reino de este mundo (Spanish, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Alejo Carpentier
R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

El reino de este mundo es una novela publicada en 1949 por el escritor cubano Alejo Carpentier cuyo tema principal, lo real maravilloso, se enmarca en la Revolucion haitiana. En esta novela, ampliamente aceptada por la critica y que pertenece ya al canon academico, el lector se introduce, a traves de los ojos de un esclavo, en la fascinante atmosfera de una Haiti en busca de independencia, un mundo de pasiones que se desenvuelven en medio de la feroz caricatura de los extraordinarios lujos de la corte bonapartista. Novela pionera del realismo magico, en una America donde lo magico es cotidiano y real.

El cine, decima musa (Spanish, Paperback): Alejo Carpentier El cine, decima musa (Spanish, Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Los pasos perdidos (Spanish, Paperback): Alejo Carpentier Los pasos perdidos (Spanish, Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier
R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Buscar la utopia es querer encontrar el paraiso, y viceversa. Alejo Carpentier lo intento por medio de un riquisimo lenguaje, de la naturaleza exuberante. Los pasos perdidos es un descenso a las raices, una travesia cargada de simbolos y de un a ancestral tradicion cultural. Esta novela, escrita narra un viaje de vuelta: el protagonista, musicologo, emprende una expedicion al pais de su infancia en busca de instrumentos musicales primitivos, al mismo tiempo, es una fuga: huye de un trabajo sinsentido, de una sociedad corrompida."

Concierto barroco (Spanish, Paperback): Alejo Carpentier Concierto barroco (Spanish, Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier
R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

En esta novela deliciosa, propositiva y liberadora, el autor utiliza los recursos propios del barroco: la parodia, el artificio, la hiperbole y la enumeracion proliferante, con mayor liberalidad; rompe con las ataduras de la cronologia historica y adquiere un extraordianrio sentido del humor. El libro cuenta la historia de la puesta en escena de una opera de Antonio Vivaldi, estrenada en el teatro SantAngelo de Venecia, en el otono de 1733, la cual narra la derrota de Moctezuma por las fuerzas espanolas que capitanea Hernan Cortes. El tema no puede ser mas propicio para la pluma de Carpentier, pues se trata de una opera barroca, que permite ademas, enfrentar dos historias, dos culturas, dos mundos -America y Europa-, de cuya contraposicion surge, en la optica carpenteriana, precisamente lo real maravilloso. Novela que da cuenta del gusto del autor por la musica, una segunda vocacion que, junto a la arquitectura, subyace en toda su obra y que ya se habia manifestado con singular vehemencia en Los pasos perdidos.

El recurso del metodo (Spanish, Paperback): Alejo Carpentier El recurso del metodo (Spanish, Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

El recurso del metodo es una obra compleja, escrita en un lenguaje suntuoso, montada sobre un monologo, que en su momento tuvo una acogida muy entusiasta por parte del publico y la critica, como lo demuestran sus numerosas ediciones, que ya pasan de treinta sin contar los idiomas extranjeros. La mayoria de los criticos reconocio que era un logro apreciable, una novela historica y politica entre cuyas virtudes estaban la parodica autenticidad del mundo narrado, la actualidad de su propuesta y su nivel de experimentacion formal. El titulo de la novela hace alusion al pensamiento cartesiano. Esta es una de las obras cumbres del subgenero narrativo que podria denominarse "novela de dictador," suma o amalgama de varios dictadores de America Latina, como el cubano Machado, el guatemalteco Estrada Cabrera, el mexicano Porfirio Diaz o el venezolano Guzman Blanco, el personaje central de la trama es soez y aparentemente ilustrado, corrupto, incapaz y de bajisimo vuelo historico, es una de las creaciones mas memorables del autor y un emblema perfecto de una figura historica que aun hoy hace sentir su peso en Latinoamerica.

El Siglo De Las Luces (Spanish, Paperback): Alejo Carpentier El Siglo De Las Luces (Spanish, Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Obras Completas VI. El Recurso del Metodo (Spanish, Paperback, 4th ed.): Alejo Carpentier Obras Completas VI. El Recurso del Metodo (Spanish, Paperback, 4th ed.)
Alejo Carpentier
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Explosion in a Cathedral (Paperback): Alejo Carpentier Explosion in a Cathedral (Paperback)
Alejo Carpentier; Translated by Adrian Nathan West; Foreword by Alejandro Zambra
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra A Penguin Classic When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust. Landing at the Havana doorstep of a trio of wealthy, eccentric Creole orphans, he sweeps them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, whose enslaved Africans he frees only then to exploit them in his fight against the British for colonial sovereignty. What ensues in Alejo Carpentier’s swashbuckling, magical realist masterpiece is an explosive clash between the New World and the Old World, and between revolutionary ideals and the corrupting allure of power.

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