Name: El Reino de Este Mundo (in Spanish)
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Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9788432224959

portada El Reino de Este Mundo (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Austral

Collection

AUSTRAL-NARRATIVA

Year

2015

Language

Spanish

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.00 x 12.50

ISBN13

9788432224959

Edited in

España

Synopsis "El Reino de Este Mundo (in Spanish)"

Incomparable relato que se ha convertido en una novela clave de la literatura hispanoamericana del s. XX.

El reino de este mundo es un alucinante relato en la aventurosa corte real haitiana de Henri Christophe. Un mundo de pasiones que se desenvuelven en medio de la feroz caricatura de la corte bonapartista, construida con los elementos casi salvajes de una isla antillana en la que la tiranía ha cambiado brutalmente de nombre y en la que los ecos del tamtam repercuten en el latón de los uniformes y en las borlas de las bordadas mitras de fingidos obispos.

Esta edición incluye también el célebre prólogo en el que Carpentier acuña el término «real maravilloso», que a su parecer es la mejor definición de la idiosincrasia del continente americano, en donde el milagro y la magia forman parte de la esencia de su cultura.

Alejo Carpentier

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Alejo Carpentier was born in Havana in 1904, son of a French architect who had settled in the Antilles two years earlier. In 1921 he abandoned his architecture studies and professionally devoted himself to journalism, joining the then-called "Grupo Minorista". In 1924 he was appointed director of the magazine Carteles. Imprisoned for political reasons during the Machado regime, he began writing Ecue-Yamba-O. That same year he participated in the founding of the magazine "Avance". In 1928 he clandestinely embarked for France, where he remained until 1939. Returning to Cuba, he got a job in radio. He traveled to various countries in America and settled in Venezuela from 1945 until 1959, when he returned to Cuba, where he directed the National Publisher. From the end of 1966 he resided in Paris, where he held an important diplomatic position, until his death in 1980. Carpentier published the fiction books Ecue-Yamba-O, The Kingdom of This World (first edition, 1949), The Lost Steps (1953), War of Time (1956), The Chase (1958; Seix Barral, 1987), The Century of the Lights (1952; Seix Barral, 1965), Reasons of State (1974), Baroque Concert (1974), The Consecration of Spring (1978) and The Harp and the Shadow (1979).

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María Luchsinger Saturday, January 18, 2020
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Carmen Cortés Sunday, August 15, 2021
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Bueno, el mismo tema de Los Tambores del Destino.
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Adriana Garcés Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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Un poco costoso para la edición, pero muy buen libro
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