Explosion in a Cathedral
Author | : Alejo Carpentier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780140033700 |
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Author | : Alejo Carpentier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780140033700 |
Author | : Alejo Carpentier |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A swashbuckling tale set in the Caribbean at the time of the French Revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the English at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In Carpentier's telling, this piratical character walks into the lives of the wealthy orphans Esteban and Sofia and casts them abruptly into the midst of the immense changes sweeping the world outside their Havana mansion.
Author | : Alejo Carpentier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Alejo Carpentier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Ólafia (Einarsdóttir.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Chronology, Icelandic |
ISBN | : 9789140022936 |
Author | : Nelson DeMille |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2002-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0759522588 |
St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal.
Author | : George Dyson |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0375422773 |
Documents the innovations of a group of eccentric geniuses who developed computer code in the mid-20th century as part of mathematician Alan Turin's theoretical universal machine idea, exploring how their ideas led to such developments as digital television, modern genetics and the hydrogen bomb.
Author | : Alejo Carpentier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Alejo Carpentier |
Publisher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1612192807 |
One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist—to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a novel about the dictatorships then wreaking misery in Latin America. García Márquez went on to write The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos I, the Supreme. The third novel in this remarkable trinity is Reasons of State, hailed as the most significant novel ever to come out of Cuba. As with Garcia Marquez, Reasons of State is a bold story, boldly told --- daring in its perceptions, rich in lush detail, inventive in prose, and deadly compelling in its suspenseful plot. Inexplicably out of print for years, it tells the tale of the dictator of an unnamed Latin American country who has been living the life of luxury in high-society Paris. When news reaches him of a coup at home, he rushes back and crushes it with brutal military force. But returning to Paris he is given a chilly welcome, and learns that photographs of the atrocities have been circulating among his well-to-do friends. Meanwhile World War One has broken out, and another rebellion forces the dictator back across the ocean. As he struggles with the Marxist forces beginning to find footing in his own country, and Europe is devastated, Carpentier constructs a masterful and biting satire of the new world order.
Author | : Bainard Cowan |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1997-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807121818 |
Emanating from a colloquium held at Louisiana State University entitled “Intertextuality and Civilization in the Americas,” this volume features some of the best minds now writing in comparative and interdisciplinary fields. Through lively discussions of topics ranging from Sigmund Freud to Zora Neale Hurston, from Christopher Columbus to the Holocaust, and including latter-day cultural icons such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the contributors create a stimulating dialogue on the crucial role of the poetic imagination in shaping the identity of civilizations. Addressing themes such as the Moses story in modern literature, the relation between power and cultural encounter, the first African-American novel, and the foundations of Latin American literature and the New World baroque, the contributors link multiculturalism with intertextuality, crossing disciplinary, national, linguistic, and hemispheric boundaries. The volume closes with Jefferson Humphries’ deft translation of a poem by Edouard Glissant, a featured speaker at the conference whose writings bear a special relation to the subject of intertextuality. Together, the essays offer a full consideration of cultural identity and bring to the fore the difficult question of the larger responsibilities that identity entails. As Bainard Cowan illustrates in his perceptive introduction, in both the past and the future of the Americas, in moments of foundation as well as of conflict and dispersal, there has been or will be present the recurrent need for mythic and poetic understanding. An unusually timely work, Poetics of the Americas skillfully addresses the crises that the world faces in the confrontations of cultures, traditions, and peoples.