The Kingdom of This World - Softcover

De Onis, Harriet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374530114 ISBN 13: 9780374530112

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Carpentier Alejo

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Críticas:

"Carpentier's writing has the power and range of a cathedral organ on the eve of the Resurrection."--"The New Yorker"

"Carpentier's energy is gigantic and pell-mell, sweeping colossi on top of each other with ruthless, contemptuous daring."--"The Yale Review"

"Carpentier creates a brilliant, improbable world which has the stylized reality of the great myths."--"The Atlantic Monthly"

""The Kingdom of This World" packs literary dynamite. There can be no disputing the fact, Carpentier is equipped with an elegant perception and a distinctive style which make him a writer to be classed with Thomas Mann and W.H. Hudson."--"San Francisco Chronicle"

Carpentier's writing has the power and range of a cathedral organ on the eve of the Resurrection. "The New Yorker"

Carpentier's energy is gigantic and pell-mell, sweeping colossi on top of each other with ruthless, contemptuous daring. "The Yale Review"

Carpentier creates a brilliant, improbable world which has the stylized reality of the great myths. "The Atlantic Monthly"

"The Kingdom of This World" packs literary dynamite. There can be no disputing the fact, Carpentier is equipped with an elegant perception and a distinctive style which make him a writer to be classed with Thomas Mann and W.H. Hudson. "San Francisco Chronicle""

Carpentier's writing has the power and range of a cathedral organ on the eve of the Resurrection. The New Yorker

Carpentier's energy is gigantic and pell-mell, sweeping colossi on top of each other with ruthless, contemptuous daring. The Yale Review

Carpentier creates a brilliant, improbable world which has the stylized reality of the great myths. The Atlantic Monthly

The Kingdom of This World packs literary dynamite. There can be no disputing the fact, Carpentier is equipped with an elegant perception and a distinctive style which make him a writer to be classed with Thomas Mann and W.H. Hudson. San Francisco Chronicle

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"Carpentier's writing has the power and range of a cathedral organ on the eve of the Resurrection." --The New Yorker

"Carpentier's energy is gigantic and pell-mell, sweeping colossi on top of each other with ruthless, contemptuous daring." --The Yale Review

"Carpentier creates a brilliant, improbable world which has the stylized reality of the great myths." --The Atlantic Monthly

"The Kingdom of This World packs literary dynamite. There can be no disputing the fact, Carpentier is equipped with an elegant perception and a distinctive style which make him a writer to be classed with Thomas Mann and W.H. Hudson." --San Francisco Chronicle

Reseña del editor:

A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime—built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor—in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.

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• Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374530114
• ISBN 13: 9780374530112
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180