Name: El Acoso (el Libro de Bolsillo - Bibliotecas de Autor - Biblioteca Carpentier) (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9788420658186

portada El Acoso (el Libro de Bolsillo - Bibliotecas de Autor - Biblioteca Carpentier) (in Spanish)

El Acoso (el Libro de Bolsillo - Bibliotecas de Autor - Biblioteca Carpentier) (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Alianza Editorial

Synopsis "El Acoso (el Libro de Bolsillo - Bibliotecas de Autor - Biblioteca Carpentier) (in Spanish)"

La acción de EL ACOSO (1956) transcurre durante los 46 minutos que dura la ejecución de la «Sinfonía Heroica» de Beethoven en un teatro de La Habana donde se ha refugiado un joven que ha pasado del combate político a la acción terrorista y, mediante la tortura, a la traición. Sus antiguos camaradas, convertidos ahora en sus perseguidores, lo aguardan en las filas de atrás. Sirviéndose de su portentoso dominio del lenguaje y de la técnica narrativa, Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) recrea en esta novela a través de una pluralidad de voces el narrador, el acosado, el taquillero del teatro tanto el clima político que se vivió en Cuba durante los turbulentos años de la dictadura de Gerardo Machado, como los aspectos que nos dan la clave para entender la vida del protagonista (su militancia política, sus relaciones amorosas y familiares, sus inquietudes religiosas y el desgarramiento de su conciencia).

Alejo Carpentier

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Alejo Carpentier was born in Havana in 1904, son of a French architect who had settled in the Antilles two years earlier. In 1921 he abandoned his architecture studies and professionally devoted himself to journalism, joining the then-called "Grupo Minorista". In 1924 he was appointed director of the magazine Carteles. Imprisoned for political reasons during the Machado regime, he began writing Ecue-Yamba-O. That same year he participated in the founding of the magazine "Avance". In 1928 he clandestinely embarked for France, where he remained until 1939. Returning to Cuba, he got a job in radio. He traveled to various countries in America and settled in Venezuela from 1945 until 1959, when he returned to Cuba, where he directed the National Publisher. From the end of 1966 he resided in Paris, where he held an important diplomatic position, until his death in 1980. Carpentier published the fiction books Ecue-Yamba-O, The Kingdom of This World (first edition, 1949), The Lost Steps (1953), War of Time (1956), The Chase (1958; Seix Barral, 1987), The Century of the Lights (1952; Seix Barral, 1965), Reasons of State (1974), Baroque Concert (1974), The Consecration of Spring (1978) and The Harp and the Shadow (1979).

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