The Comps Reading Project part 9

El recurso del metodo [Return of the Method, but usually translated as Reasons Of State], Alejo Carpentier.
When I initially groaned at how much Carpentier my Spanish professor put on my list, I didn't realize that he would become my new favorite novelist before the end of the summer. His failure to be awarded the Nobel is one more strike against the organization.

In yet another Dictator novel with a strong French connection, we get a sort of sarcastic third person omniscient narrative of a cen...