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About the Author:
Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier (19041980) was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of politics and literature. Best known for his novels, Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. Born in Havana, he lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the 1959 revolution.

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About the Author:
Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier (19041980) was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of politics and literature. Best known for his novels, Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. Born in Havana, he lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the 1959 revolution.

Written in 1956, The Chase is a thrilling tale told against the backdrop of Havana in the era of Batista's violent tyranny. Carpentier tells the story of how two men (a student on the run and a ticket seller at a concert hall) find their lives and fates intertwined.

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In a nameless, Havana-like city, an anonymous man flees a team of shadowy, relentless political assassins, and ultimately takes refuge in a symphony auditorium during a performance of Beethoven's Eroica. . . . This nightmarish novel does not so much tell a story as map the secret political infrastructure of cities, governments, churches, music, and bodies.
From The Critics
Carpentier was one of the early giants of modern Latin American literature, a man whose writing helped shape and define the period of 'magic realism.' . . . [The Chase is] a masterpiece.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780816638093
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/2001
  • Edition description: REPRINT
  • Pages: 144
  • Sales rank: 672,951
  • Lexile: 1340L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.44 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.40 (d)
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