by Alejo Carpentier · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420633596
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«Guerra del tiempo y otros relatos» is the short story collection by Alejo Carpentier, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (194 pages, in Spanish).
A volume gathering representative short stories from Alejo Carpentier's brief narrative, with formal experiments to overcome the limits of novelistic time and fuse future, present and past. It includes pieces such as «Viaje a la semilla», «El camino de Santiago» and «El derecho de asilo», along with texts from the author's early period.
It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Biblioteca de Autor de Alejo Carpentier. The edition incorporates three additional stories to the previous seven, including «El estudiante» and «El milagro del ascensor», unpublished in Spain at the time.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and for those who want to approach the short narrative of one of the great authors in the Spanish language.
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.
