by Alejo Carpentier · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633626
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«Concierto barroco» is the novel by Alejo Carpentier published by Alianza in paperback (104 pages, in Spanish).
In this tale, Alejo Carpentier imagines the creation of Antonio Vivaldi's opera «Montezuma», the first to take the New World as its subject. With the encounter between Europe and America in the background, music articulates the narrative and fuses times and spaces, bringing together ancient and modern masters from both shores of the Atlantic.
The work was originally published in 1974; this edition is volume 193 of El Libro de Bolsillo, within the Biblioteca Carpentier collection.
For readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century Latin American narrative.
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often aligned himself with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-20th century. Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.
