Alejo Carpentier Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 29 pages of information about the life of Alejo Carpentier.
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Alejo Carpentier Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 29 pages of information about the life of Alejo Carpentier.
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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 Havana. His father, Georges, an architect, was French, and his mother was of Russian descent. The Carpentiers had arrived in Cuba two years before Alejo was born, their sights on a better lot in the newest of the Spanish-American republics. Cuba had been declared independent by the United States on 20 May 1902, after a nearly four-year occupation that followed Spain's defeat in the war of 1898. The Carpentiers were not poor immigrants, however. The house in which they settled in El Cotorro, on the outskirts of Havana, must have been of considerable size, because Carpentier later recalled roaming in his father's library, and in such novels as El acoso (1956; translated...

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