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Alejo Carpentier
Author profile
born
in Lausanne, Switzerland
December 26, 1904
died
April 24, 1980
gender
male
genre
influences
Homer, Marcel Proust, Andre Breton, Miguel Angel Asturias
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The Kingdom of This World
by Alejo Carpentier, Harriet de Onís — published 1949 — 36 editions |
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The Lost Steps
by Alejo Carpentier, Harriet de Onís — published 1953 — 37 editions |
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El Siglo De Las Luces
— published 1962 — 20 editions |
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Concierto Barroco
by Alejo Carpentier, Gonzalo Celorio — published 1975 — 14 editions |
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Explosion In A Cathedral
by Alejo Carpentier, John Sturrock , Timothy Brennan — published 1962 — 6 editions |
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Viaje a la Semilla
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El arpa y la sombra
— published 1979 — 10 editions |
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El Recurso Del Metodo
— published 1974 — 15 editions |
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La Consagracion De La Primavera
— published 1978 — 9 editions |
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The Chase
by Alejo Carpentier, Alfred Mac Adam — published 1956 — 10 editions |
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“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will never know, and who, in turn, will suffer and hope and toil for others who will not be happy either, for man always seeks a happiness far beyond that which is meted out to him. But man's greatness consists in the very fact of wanting to be better than he is. In laying duties upon himself. In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of this World.”
― Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
― Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
“In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.”
― Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
― Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
“Un día, los hombres descubrirán un alfabeto en los ojos de las calcedonias, en los pardos terciopelos de la falena, y entonces se sabrá con asombro que cada caracol manchado era, desde siempre, un poema.”
― Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps
― Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps
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