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Alejo Carpentier

Born

in Lausanne, Switzerland

December 26, 1904

Died

April 24, 1980

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Politics

Influences

Rubén Darío, Marcel Proust, Miguel Angel Asturias, Victor Hugo, André ...more

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Writings of Cuban author, musicologist, and diplomat Alejo Carpentier influenced the development of magical realism; his novels include El siglo de las luces! (1962) and The Kingdom of This World (1949).

Alejo Carpentier Blagoobrasoff, an essayist, greatly influenced Latin American literature during its "boom" period.

Perhaps most important intellectual figure of the 20th century, this classically trained pianist and theorist of politics and literature produced avant-garde radio programming. Best known Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. With Havana, he strongly self-identified throughout his life. People jailed and exiled him, who lived for many ...more

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Alejo Carpentier’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 21,705 ratings · 2,072 reviews · 216 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier, Harriet de Onís (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 8,013 ratings — published 1949 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier, Harriet de Onís (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 3,633 ratings — published 1953 — 173 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El siglo de las luces 4.11 avg rating — 3,383 ratings — published 1962 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Concierto barroco by Alejo Carpentier, Gonzalo Celorio (Prologue by) 3.77 avg rating — 1,232 ratings — published 1974 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viaje a la semilla 3.95 avg rating — 678 ratings — published 1944 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El arpa y la sombra 3.71 avg rating — 716 ratings — published 1979 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El recurso del método 4.05 avg rating — 572 ratings — published 1974 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chase 3.49 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 1956 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La consagración de la primavera 4.35 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guerra del tiempo y otros relatos 3.96 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1958 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will never know, and who, in turn, will suffer and hope and toil for others who will not be happy either, for man always seeks a happiness far beyond that which is meted out to him. But man's greatness consists in the very fact of wanting to be better than he is. In laying duties upon himself. In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of this World.”
― Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World

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“The truth was much more beautiful.”
― Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps

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“Un día, los hombres descubrirán un alfabeto en los ojos de las calcedonias, en los pardos terciopelos de la falena, y entonces se sabrá con asombro que cada caracol manchado era, desde siempre, un poema.”
― Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps

tags: el-ambiente, el-poesía, la-naturaleza

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Polls

April 2018 New School Poll

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, 183 pages, 1968

65 votes, 18.3%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, 1945

41 votes, 11.5%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pages, 1946

34 votes, 9.6%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902

33 votes, 9.3%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932

27 votes, 7.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326 pages, 1995

26 votes, 7.3%

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 554 pages, 1982

21 votes, 5.9%

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 232 pages, 1938

21 votes, 5.9%

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald, 225 pages, 1932

21 votes, 5.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940

17 votes, 4.8%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pages, 1933

11 votes, 3.1%

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 528 pages, 1903

10 votes, 2.8%

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 239 pages, 1939

10 votes, 2.8%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 176 pages, 1987

9 votes, 2.5%

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, 345 pages, 1974

4 votes, 1.1%

Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, 360 pages, 1962

3 votes, 0.8%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929

2 votes, 0.6%

355 total votes

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