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Alejo Carpentier

Date de naissance: 26. décembre 1904
Date de décès: 24. avril 1980
Autres noms: Alejo Carpentier Y Valmont

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont, né le 26 décembre 1904 à Lausanne et mort le 24 avril 1980 à Paris, est un écrivain cubain, romancier, essayiste, musicologue, qui a profondément influencé la littérature latino-américaine durant son fameux boom.

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Alejo Carpentier1

écrivain, romancier, essayiste, musicologue cubain 1904 – 1980

„Attention! Ce sont les croyants béats comme vous, les naïfs, les dévoreurs d'écrits humanitaires, les calvinistes de l'idée, qui élèvent les guillotines.“El siglo de las luces

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„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.“The Kingdom of This World

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„In America everything is fantastical.“Concierto barroco

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„The truth was much more beautiful.“The Lost Steps

Alejo Carpentier21

Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„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.“The Kingdom of This World

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.“The Lost Steps

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man." -The Lost Steps“

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

Alejo Carpentier21

Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„The thunder traveled over the ship, from west to east, with prolonged reverberations, before it moved away with its clouds, leaving the sea, by mid-afternoon, bathed in a strange auroral light, which turned its as smooth and iridescent as a mountain lake. The bow of the Arrow became a plough, breaking up the tranquility of the surface with the frothy arabesques of its wake. Pg 301 Explosion in the Cathedral“

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„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" (179).“

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„I asked myself whether, in bygone days, men had longed for bygone days as I, this summer morning, longed for certain ways of life that man had lost forever.“The Lost Steps

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„But everywhere dark shapes were already melting into the night, seeking asylum in the undergrowth and the jungle. Those not caught in the first haul headed for the mountains, stealing canoes and boats to make their way upstream; they were unarmed, almost naked, but determined to return to the way of life of their ancestors, somewhere the whites would not be able reach them. As they passed the outlying plantations, they spread the news amongst their own people, and ten, twenty, more men would abandon their work, deserting the fields of indigo and clover, to swell the numbers of the runaways. And in parties of one hundred, two hundred at a time, followed by their wives carrying children, they moved off into the interior, through thickets and crags, in search of a place they could build a palisade. As they fled they scattered mullein seeds in the streams and rivulets, so that fish would be poisoned and infect the water with their miasma as they putrefied. Beyond this torrent, beyond that mountain clothed in waterfalls, Africa would begin again; they would go back to forgotten tongues, to the rites of circumcision, to the worship of the earlier gods, who had preceded the recent gods of Christianity. The undergrowth closed behind men who were retracing the course of history, to regain an age when Creation had been ruled by the fertile Venus, with her huge breasts and her ample belly, who was worshipped in deep caves where a hand was haltingly tracing its first configurations of the activities of the chase, and of ceremonies dedicated to the stars.“El siglo de las luces

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species" (176).“The Kingdom of This World

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„The anxious wait lasted four years, and the alert ears never despaired of hearing, at any moment, the voice of the great conch shell which would bellow through the hills to announce to all that Macandal had completed the cycle of his metamorphoses, and stood poised once more, sinewy and hard, with testicles like rocks, on his own human legs" (36-37).“

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„Ti Noel vaguely understood that his rejection by the geese was a punishment for his cowardice. Macandal had disguised himself as an animal for years to serve men, not to abjure the world of men.“

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Cuban novelist 1904 – 1980

„Having chosen his own death, Henri Christophe would never know the corruption of his flesh, flesh fused with the very stuff of the fortress, inscribed in its architecture, integrated with its body bristling with flying buttresses. Le Bonnet del'Eveque, the whole mountains, had become the mausoleum of the first King of Haiti.“The Kingdom of This World

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