by Alejo Carpentier · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440702326
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«Relatos» is the short story collection by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published in 1998 by FisicalBook in paperback (189 pages, in Spanish).
Collection of short stories by Alejo Carpentier including pieces such as «Viaje a la semilla», «El camino de Santiago», «Semejante a la noche» and «Historia de lunas». Narratives that address American history, nature and culture with musicality, fantastic elements and a certain surrealist tone.
The cover shows the emblem of the 1977 Cervantes Prize. The volume includes «El estudiante», a story that Alejo Carpentier left unfinished and that had only been published in a Venezuelan magazine.
For readers interested in short fiction in Spanish and in the work of Alejo Carpentier.
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.
