Explosion in a Cathedral (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Carpentier, Alejo

 
9780143133889: Explosion in a Cathedral (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0143133888 ISBN 13: 9780143133889
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

One of Latin America's greatest historical novels deals with the impact of the French Revolution on the Caribbean

When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and desire for bloodshed. Landing at the Havana doorstep of three wealthy Creole adolescent orphans, he leads them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, into the midst of the immense changes sweeping the world outside their life in Havana. As Victor's ideals begin to warp and change to fit shifting policies, the trio can no longer bear his betrayal of revolutionary ideas. What ensues in this magical realist masterpiece speaks to the frightening and corrupting allure of power.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was one of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century, as well as a classically trained pianist and musicologist. His best-known novels are The Lost Steps, Explosion in a Cathedral, and The Kingdom of This World. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and raised in Havana, Cuba, Carpentier lived for many years in France and Venezuela before returning to Cuba after the 1959 revolution. A few years later he returned to France, where he lived until his death.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0143133888
ISBN 13 
9780143133889
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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