by Alejo Carpentier · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439716402
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«Letra y solfa: Cine» is Alejo Carpentier's book of film chronicles (1951-1959), published by Mondadori in hardback (242 pages, in Spanish).
The work brings together the chronicles Alejo Carpentier devoted to cinema between 1951 and 1959, with a prologue, selection and indexes by Raimundo Respall Fina. In these texts, the author reviews films, performers and trends of the era with the eye of both writer and chronicler.
First volume in the «Letra y solfa» series, within the Narrativa Mondadori line. Published in Madrid in 1990.
A work for fans of film criticism and for readers who want to approach Alejo Carpentier's journalistic side.
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.
