by Alejo Carpentier · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432221699
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«El reino de este mundo» is the historical novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Seix Barral in hardcover (156 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Haiti in the 18th and 19th centuries, it recreates the events surrounding the country's independence and the rise of the dictator Henri Christophe. Carpentier blends historical chronicle with the supernatural and gives form to what he called «real maravilloso»: a world where popular rebellion, beliefs and the ambition for power coexist.
Volume 9 of the collection «Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea». Work originally published in 1949.
For readers of Latin American fiction and magical realism, and for those seeking a short 20th-century work.
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.
