The Kingdom of This World

Name: The Kingdom of This World
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780374521974

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190 pages1989Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN 9780374521974

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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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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1989
Pages: 190
ISBN: 9780374521974

About Unknown Author

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Lausana, 26 de diciembre de 1904-París, 24 de abril de 1980) fue un escritor cubano y francés que influyó notablemente en la literatura latinoamericana durante su periodo de auge. La crítica lo consideró uno de los escritores fundamentales del siglo XX en lengua española, y uno de los artífices de la renovación literaria latinoaméricana, en particular a través de un estilo que incorpora varias dimensiones y aspectos de la imaginación para recrear la realidad, elementos que contribuyeron a su formación y uso de «lo real maravilloso». Entre sus novelas destacan *El reino de este mundo* (1949), *Los pasos perdidos* (1953), *El siglo de las luces* (1962), *El recurso del método* (1974) y *La consagración de la primavera* (1978). Fuente: [Wikipedia](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejo_Carpentier) ---------- Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Lausanne, December 26, 1904 – Paris, April 24, 1980) was a Cuban-French writer who had a significant influence on Latin American literature during its golden age. Critics considered him one of the most important writers of the 20th century in the Spanish language, and one of the key figures in the literary renewal of Latin America, particularly through a style that incorporates various dimensions and aspects of the imagination to recreate reality—elements that contributed to his development and use of what he termed "magical realism." Among his novels are *El reino de este mundo* (1949), *Los pasos perdidos* (1953), *El siglo de las luces* (1962), *El recurso del método* (1974) y *La consagración de la primavera* (1978).