Showing results for "Alejo Carpentier" in Historical Fiction

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 bloodlust. Landing at the Havana doorstep of a trio of wealthy, eccentric Creole orphans, he sweeps them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, whose enslaved Africans he frees only then to exploit them in his fight against the British for colonial sovereignty. What ensues in Alejo Carpentier’s magical realist masterpiece is an explosive clash between the New World and the Old World.

El relato histórico de Alejo Carpentier El Camino de Santiago narra la historia de un soldado español del siglo XVI, Juan, que emprende una peregrinación a Santiago de Compostela. A partir de Amberes, en el insurgente Flandes, pierde su camino y llega finalmente a Sevilla y América, donde su destino será cumplido.

In diesem Roman blickt der sterbende Kolumbus auf die Stationen seines Lebens zurück und richtet sich dabei selbst. Dem Kubaner Carpentier geht es dabei nicht nur um Kolumbus und seine Großtaten, sondern auch um deren Bewertung im Hinblick auf die Geschichte Lateinamerikas. In einem Seligsprechungsprozess kommen schließlich Zeitzeugen von Kolumbus zu Wort, die die Taten kritisch beurteilen.

Not Even the Dead is the story of a persecution that transcends territories and centuries; a path pointing northward, always northward, that is to say, always toward the future, on a hallucinated journey from the sixteenth century New Spain to today's Trump wall.