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El Siglo De Las Luces by Alejo Carpentier (1989~Paperback~Spanish Edition)

Description: Dos hermanos y un primo se hallan en el medio de los movimientos revolucionarios (intellectuales y polìticos) che desde Europa llegan a Amèrica Latina. Tendràn que escoger entre la libertad personal, el compromiso y el silencio. De extraordinaria potencia narrativa y visual oscila entre la grandeza de la acciòn historica y la magia de paginas real maravillosas que encantan. Del inventor del real maravilloso, la obra màs grande del '900 hispano-americano. Carpentier's Siglo de las luces (The century of light) is the novel that can truly be called the key representative of magic realism. In the story of three brothers wandering all around the world the author crammed every little detail of the wonders of the eighteen century America (and of some parts of Europe). Thus he gave a sweeping portrait of the atmosphere of the age of the Enlightenment (hence the title), how the elevated ideals gradually drowned into blood and destruction. Carpentier originally studied music theory and we can say that in this book he found the closest equivalent in prose to a Beethoven symphony. In his literary essays he also talked about the existence of the eternal baroque, which roughly means that during literary history there are always periods when the rules of content and form are subverted. The finest example to the existence of the baroque in the twentieth century is precisely not only because of the luxuriant action but because of its carefully planned, winding sentences. Because of its difficult syntax and vocabulary, the lengthy sentences crammed with every possible little detail of the described scene, this book is not an easy read, especially originally in Spanish. Partly because the story is not set in our time, reading this book can be compared to the reading of a great Baroque classic, it conveys a strange eternal feel, similar to watching a flamboyant gilded altar of a XVII century church.

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El Siglo De Las Luces by Alejo Carpentier (1989~Paperback~Spanish Edition)El Siglo De Las Luces by Alejo Carpentier (1989~Paperback~Spanish Edition)

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Book Title: El Siglo De Las Luces

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Narrative Type: Fiction

Original Language: Spanish

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Publication Year: 1989

Type: Novel

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Language: Spanish

Author: Alejo Carpentier

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Genre: World literature & Classics

Country/Region of Manufacture: Spain

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