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Una novela de terror escalofriante del maestro de horror, Stephen King. Un gran bestseller.pEnglish Translation#58; Pet Sematary by Stephen King i...
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Jan 08, 2012
jeremy
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a slim work from cuban writer alejo carpentier, the chase (el acoso) is set in havana during the oppressive reign of fulgencio batista. often cited as a progenitor of magical realism, carpentier and his novels also influenced the latin american boom. the chase, though rich in descriptive language and possessed by a circuitous narrative, is not magical realism, per se. as an acclaimed musicologist, it is evident that carpentier's lush, lyrical prose was influenced by his musical background. a
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Jan 08, 2012
Babs
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If I was a high school English teacher I would assign this book as a gentle introduction to "magical realism." I could never, despite numerous attempts, get into "100 years of Solitude." Off-put if not overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of it's "magical realism" I was. But if you're looking for Gabriel Garcia Marquez "light" with a touch of "Crime and Punishment," interested in pre-Castro Batista Cuba, this is a quick read for you. Further mur
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Jan 08, 2012
Melissa
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A novella in the form of a sonata, with three main "themes" or narratives that interweave and imagery that overlaps and repeats, centered on a man who's being hunted for political reasons. All the action takes place within the forty-six minutes it takes to perform Beethoven's third symphony, Eroica. The author says he walked out the plot in Havana just to make sure it was possible. I love shit like that.
Jan 08, 2012
Dusty
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If James Joyce rewrote Crime & Punishment, ran it through a paper shredder, reassembled half the shreds, and set it in Cuba, the result would be El Acoso. Politically-charged, experimental, borderline unintelligible -- this will be either your most or least favorite Carpentier book. I lean toward the latter.
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Jan 08, 2012
Stenwjohnson
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Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier (1904-80) is often considered, alongside Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as a founder of Magical Realism, the distinctively Latin American literary school where mythology takes literal wing alongside commonplace events. In reality, Carpentier is a lucid, classical modernist in the vein of Marcel Proust or Malcolm Lowry-- a dreamlike aura enshrouds his work, but his novels are less about folkloric enchantments than a world of dense reflection rendered in pensive, oblique p
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Jan 08, 2012
Chaz
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Carpentier incarnates the perfect example of a Cuban intellectual. Eclectic in their authorities --boondoggles, really-- as people come to consult with them to better understand arcane subjects like, for instance, 18th century typography.
Cuba is an island that begs, borrows and steals from all over the world; its demographic reflects the full spectrum of the world's diversity. It's music, ideology, its patois-like Spanish, diet, art, all human creation in short is imported, masticate More...
Cuba is an island that begs, borrows and steals from all over the world; its demographic reflects the full spectrum of the world's diversity. It's music, ideology, its patois-like Spanish, diet, art, all human creation in short is imported, masticate More...
Jan 08, 2012
Emily
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After reading recent novelists whose themes seem to center on navel gazing, reading this book was eye opening. It's demand to remember the times when politics really did center around life and death shook me awake from the self centered, existential angst of so much recent american writers. The snippet of a character who is having second thoughts about participating in political organizing in the face of death was vivid and startling.
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