The Kingdom of This World - Brossura

De Onis, Harriet

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374530114 ISBN 13: 9780374530112

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Riassunto

A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime—built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor—in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.

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L'autore:

Alejo Carpentier was born in Havana in 1904. He lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the revolution. One of the major Latin American writers of this century, he is the author of The Lost Steps, Explosion in a Cathedral, and The Chase. He died in Paris in 1980.

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Book by Carpentier Alejo

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374530114
• ISBN 13: 9780374530112
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 180