by Alejo Carpentier · ABC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441319905
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«El recurso del método» is the novel by Alejo Carpentier published by ABC in the Biblioteca del Viajero collection no. 19, in paperback (309 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows a «Primer Magistrado», a Latin American dictator exiled in Paris who yearns for the power and the country he left behind. Carpentier combines irony, historical reflection, and critique of power to explore Latin American identity and the paradoxes of tyranny.
The novel, written in 1974, was published in Spanish in 2004 in Barcelona, within the Biblioteca del Viajero collection no. 19.
Aimed at readers interested in Latin American literature and the dictator novel.
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often aligned himself with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-20th century. Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.
