Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban writer who straddled the connection between European literature and the native culture of Latin-America. The Kingdom of This World is a marvelously compressed account of the slave uprising and first revolution of the early nineteenth century in San Domingo now Haiti. Carpentier uses magical realism, long before it became fashionable, to depict the contradictions between political reality and religious or mythical beliefs. The story passes rapidly in a series of vivid scenes from the early ...
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Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban writer who straddled the connection between European literature and the native culture of Latin-America. The Kingdom of This World is a marvelously compressed account of the slave uprising and first revolution of the early nineteenth century in San Domingo now Haiti. Carpentier uses magical realism, long before it became fashionable, to depict the contradictions between political reality and religious or mythical beliefs. The story passes rapidly in a series of vivid scenes from the early unsuccessful uprising led by Macandal, then Bouckman who led Haiti in its fight for independence from France, and finally to Henri Christophe the revolutionary leader who later became Emperor of Haiti, and who built Sans Souci and La Ferrire Citadel.
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2018,
Planeta Publishing
ISBN-13: 9789686005158
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2010,
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-13: 9781490981574
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2nd edition
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2010,
Lectorum Publications, Mexico City, Mexico
ISBN-13: 9786074571240
Spanish
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Rayo, New York, NY
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2008,
Booket
ISBN-13: 9788432217678
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2004,
Editorial Seix Barral, Barcelona, Spain
ISBN-13: 9788432216534
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1997,
Editorial Seix Barral, Barcelona, Spain
ISBN-13: 9788432230158
Spanish
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1993,
University of Puerto Rico Press
ISBN-13: 9780847701872
Spanish
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Excellent reading for those who want to read fiction based on the history and religion of Haiti. Highly recommended.
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