by Alejo Carpentier · Editorial Letras Cubanas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789591020116
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«Guerra del tiempo» is the short story collection by Alejo Carpentier, published by Editorial Letras Cubanas in paperback (177 pages, in Spanish).
In «Guerra del tiempo», Carpentier explores time as a cyclical and subjective experience. With a baroque style and elements of magical realism, the stories interweave past and present in Latin American history and the human condition.
The 2014 paperback edition, 177 pages, bears the subtitle «tres relatos y una novela».
For readers of Hispanic American fiction interested in magical realism and reflections on time.
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.
