Alejo Carpentier
| Alejo Carpentier | |
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| Birth name | Alejo Carpentier y Valmont |
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| Activity (s) | Writer , musicologist |
| Birth | 26 December 1904 Lausanne , Vaud , Switzerland |
| Deaths | 24 April 1980 (75 years) Paris , le-de-France , France |
| Writing language | Spanish |
| Genre (s) | Novel , essay |
| Honors | Alfonso Reyes International Prize (1975) Cervantes Prize (1977) |
| Major works | |
| * The Kingdom of This World | |
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont is a writer Cuban born in Lausanne on 26 December 1904 and died in Paris on 24 April 1980 Biography Alejo Carpentier was born of a father French architect and a mother of Russian language teacher. It was long thought that he was born in Havana , where his family moved shortly after his birth, but his birth certificate was found in Switzerland after his death and prove that he was born in Lausanne. He was 12 years old when his family moved to Paris. There he began studying musicology. When they moved back to Cuba Alejo Carpentier began studies as an architect, he will not finish. He devoted himself to journalism , but his commitment to the left earned him a stay in prison (1928), under the presidency of Gerardo Machado, before forcing him into exile in France. He met the surrealists , including Andr Breton , Paul Eluard , Louis Aragon , Jacques Prvert and Antonin Artaud. During his stay in France, he made several trips to Spain where he developed a fascination with the Baroque. Return to Cuba in 1939, he pursued a career as a journalist and radio commentator. He attends a ceremony Voodoo and is interested in Afro-Cuban culture. In 1943, it is marked by a visit to Haiti , during which he visited the fortress of La Ferriere Citadel and Sans Souci Palace, built by the black king of Haiti Henri Christophe. In 1945 he moved to Caracas (Venezuela) where he lived until 1959. After the triumph of the Cuban revolution he returned to Havana. In 1966 he became ambassador of Cuba in France where he lived until his death. Alejo Carpentier is famous for its Baroque style and his theory of the real maravilloso. His best known works in France include The Enlightenment (1962), War Time (1967), Baroque Concert (1974). His first novel, cue-Yamba-O! (1933), is inspired by Afro-Cuban. In The Kingdom of This World (1949), his first great novel, he evokes the Haitian revolutionary movement. It is also in the prologue of this novel he describes his vision of the real maravilloso or "magic realism", which critics identify with Magical Realism. His stay in Venezuela from 1945 to 1959 he clearly inspires the description of the South American country without a name which occurs most of his novel The Watershed (1953). His novel The Use of the method (El Recurso del Mtodo), published in 1974 is one of the great novels of Latin American literature to paint a portrait of the dictator type (taking here to model the figure of Machado). He is preceded in this by Miguel Angel Asturias with "El Seor Presidente" (1946), Augusto Roa Bastos' Yo el Supremo (1974) and followed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: El Otoo del Patriarca (1975) and Mario Vargas Llosa : La Fiesta del Chivo (2000). It was adapted for film by Miguel Littn in 1978 under the title El recurso del mtodo (released in France under the name of Viva el presidente! and Use of the method). In 1975 he was awarded the World Cino Del Duca. He received the Cervantes Prize in 1977 and the Prix Medicis in 1979. The end of his life is marked by a struggle against cancer, while he finishes his latest novel. He died in Paris on April 24, 1980. His body was transferred to Cuba, where he is buried in Colon Cemetery in Havana. His funeral on April 28 , in the presence of President Fidel Castro. Bibliography
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