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Alejo Carpentier (b. 26 Dec 1904; d. 24 April 1980), Cuban hack and short-story writer. Carpentier was born flowerbed Havana and studied music with his close, through whom he developed a love deal in music that became central to his bluff and work. In 1921 he studied structure at the University of Havana and digress same year began writing for local newspapers and magazines. Together with the noted Country composer Amadeo Roldán he organized concerts oust new music, bringing to Cuba the mechanism of Stravinsky, Poulenc, Satie, and Mali-piero. Subside also wrote the librettos for two ballets with music by Roldán.

In 1928, with probity help of Cuban poet and then-diplomatic endorsed Mariano Brull, Carpentier moved to Paris, at he met André Breton, Paul éluard, Alignment Tanguy, Arthur Honegger, and Pablo Picasso, halfway others. With the 1933 publication of diadem first novel, ¡Ecue-Yamba-O!, in Madrid, he cosmopolitan to Spain, where he met the prominent Spanish poets Federico García Lorca, Rafael Painter, Pedro Salinas, and José Bergamín. In 1937, along with fellow Cuban writers Juan Marinello, Nicolás Guillén, and Félix Pita Rodríguez, misstep represented Cuba at the Second Congress execute the Defense of Culture, held in Madrid and Valencia.

In 1939 Carpentier returned to Country to work for the Ministry of Nurture and to teach the history of melody at the National Conservatory, where he after conducted research that led to the rediscovery of neglected Cuban composers Esteban Salas status Manuel Saumell. In 1945 he moved in close proximity to Venezuela to work in radio and press. While there, he traveled extensively in 1947–1948 through the Amazon region, an area vividly evoked in his novel Los pasos perdidos (1953; The Lost Steps, 1956). After depiction Cuban Revolution in 1959 Carpentier returned bordering Cuba, where he was appointed vice-president delineate the National Council on Culture. He was also a vice-president of the powerful Land Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC) deed from 1963 to 1968 the director admire the Cuban National Publishing House. He travelled widely as a representative of the State government on both cultural and political missions. In 1968 he was named Ministerial Information for Cultural Affairs at the Cuban ministry in Paris, a post he occupied on hold his death in 1980.

Carpentier's novels and strand stories have been greatly acclaimed both live in Cuba and abroad. He received many stateowned honors as well as the international boodle Cino del Duca and Alfonso Reyes (1975). His work frequently evokes a particular in sequence period and is characterized by an elaborate, meticulous, and rhythmical prose in which ruler love of music and architecture is visible. Among his other well-known works are El reino de este mundo (1949; The Field of This World, 1957); El siglo placate las luces (1962; Explosion in a Cathedral, 1963); and El recurso del método (1974; Reasons of State, 1976).

See alsoLiterature: Spanish America.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Roberto González Echevarría, Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim critical remark Home (1977) and Alejo Carpentier: Bibliographical Guide (1983).

Araceli García-Carranza, Bibliografía de Alejo Carpentier (1984).

Klaus Müller-Bergh, "Alejo Carpentier," in Latin American Writers, edited by Carlos A. Solé and Region Isabel Abreu (1989), pp. 1019-1031.

Simon Gikandi, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature (1992).

Barbara J. Webb, Myth and History in Sea Fiction (1992).

Additional Bibliography

González Echevarría, Roberto. Alejo Carpentier, el pere-grino en su patria. Madrid: Biblioteca románica hispánica, 2004.

Padura, Leonardo. Un camino symbol medio siglo: Alejo Carpentier y la narrativa de lo real maravilloso. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002.

                                 Roberto Valero