by Alejo Carpentier · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402063212
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«El acoso» is the novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Bruguera in 1979 in paperback (159 pages, in Spanish).
In Havana, during the forty-six minutes of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, a young man pursued by his former comrades takes refuge in a theatre. His political militancy, violence and betrayal appear in retrospect as Carpentier recreates the oppressive climate of Gerardo Machado's Cuba and the protagonist's guilt.
El acoso was originally published in 1956; this Bruguera edition, 2nd, belongs to the Libro amigo collection (1502/652).
For readers of twentieth-century Cuban and Latin American narrative and for those approaching Hispanic American classics through Alejo Carpentier.
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.
