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Alejo Carpentier | | Birth Date: |
26 December 1904 | | Death Date: |
24 April 1980 |
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 Biography of Alejo Carpentier
8,605 words, approx. 29 pages
 Alejo Carpentier, a major Latin-American novelist with a dense, allusive style that has influenced other writers, was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 26 December 1904, St. Stephen's Day, though he claimed throughout his life that he had been born in... summary from source:
 Biography of Alejo Carpentier (y Valmont)
8,067 words, approx. 27 pages
Alejo Carpentier, a major Latin-American novelist with a dense, allusive style that has influenced other writers, was born in Havana on 26 December 1904, St. Stephen's Day. His father, Georges, an architect, was French, and his mother was of Russian... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Alejo Carpentier Information
1,725 words, approx. 6 pages
 Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom"...
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 Romanic Review The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition
01/01/2006: 1,093 words, approx. 4 pages James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism. Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004. Pp. 296. This book offers a new theoretical perspective on Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier's most important works. James Pancrazio deviates from previous critical assessments in... summary from source:
Proceso "La música en Cuba".(Alejo Carpentier)
12/26/2004: 1,045 words, approx. 4 pages Corría el mes de noviembre de 1945 cuando en Caracas, Venezuela, el escritor Alejo Carpentier puso punto final a su investigación La música en Cuba, el primer estudio serio en torno al arte musical de la isla a partir del siglo XVI. ...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mark I. Millington
8,868 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Millington asserts that "there is no doubt that what is achieved in Los pasos perdidos by the narrator is a masculist discourse of exclusion and manipulation, offset by some irony or counterpointed fragmentally when other voices become briefly audible."
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Critical Essay by Frances Wyers Weber
7,319 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Weber analyzes the narrative structure of Manhunt, identifying various thematic motifs related to character and chronological development.
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Critical Essay by Roberto González Echevarría
6,935 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Echevarría examines the many facets of exile present in Carpentier's story, asserting "The critical element of the story sets forth a founding literary myth in Latin America—that of exile—and shows how this myth engenders literature through a process of contradiction and self-denial. "
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