by Alejo Carpentier · French & European Pubns · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402062239
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«Cuentos completos» is the collection of short stories by Alejo Carpentier, published by French & European Pubns in paperback (218 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together Alejo Carpentier's short stories, pieces that expand a universe in motion: men and women, space and time, metaphors and history, with a baroque prose of geometric precision. Includes stories such as «Viaje a la semilla», «El camino de Santiago» and «El derecho de asilo».
Third edition published in 1980; belongs to the Libro Amigo collection.
For readers of Latin American fiction and literature students who want to discover Carpentier's short works.
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.
