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Alejo Capentier's Reasons of State was first published in Spanish in 1974, the year of Roa Bastos I, The Supreme and the year before Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch. Together those three books constitute the essential Latin American dictator novels. Carpentier's work contains themes that remain urgently relevant today: political answerability, the relationship between modern Latin America and richer nations, as well as the ever-prevalent notion of boom-and-bust.
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"Carpentier's writing has the power and range of a cathedral organ on the eve of the Resurrection." --The New Yorker
"Carpentier's energy is gigantic and pell-mell, sweeping colossi on top of each other with ruthless, contemptuous daring." --The Yale Review "A writer to be classed with Thomas Mann and W.H. Hudson." --San Francisco ChronicleAbout the Author
ALEJO CARPENTIER (1904-1980) was one of the most important writers of the Latin American boom. He was born in Switzerland but grew up in Havana; his European and Latin American roots allowed him a unique insight into the relationship between the new world and the old. He was arrested in 1927 for opposing the Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado y Morales, and on his release from prison escaped the country to Paris. He traveled back to Cuba in 1936, after the regime fell, then lived for a short while in Venezuela. He returned to Cuba once again in 1959, to join Fidel
Castro's revolution. He finally settled in Paris in 1966, and died there fourteen years later.
FRANCES PARTRIDGE (1900-2004) was a member of the Bloomsbury group, a writer, and a translator from French and Spanish.
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- PublisherMelville House Publishing
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1612192793
- ISBN 13 9781612192796
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages382
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