Alejo Carpentier

Gatsby and Tom’s Horse Race: Tom, Sloane, and a pretty woman arrived at Gatsby's house on horseback. As they were all about to leave, Gatsby urged them to stay for supper because he wanted to learn more about Tom. The lady enthusiastically asked Gatsby and Nick to go to supper at her house instead. Tom, on the contrary, did not want Gatsby to attend the dinner party and mockingly accused Gatsby of not owning a horse for Gatsby was far from elegant. To Tom's surprise, Gatsby did own a

Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor Boxing Match Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, also known as "The Money Fight" and "The Biggest Fight in Combat Sports History", was a professional boxing match between the undefeated eleven-time five-division boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the two-division mixed martial arts world champion and at-the-time, current UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor. Floyd Mayweather stepped up and accepted Conor McGregor’s challenge to box in a ring

genocide. Alejo Carpentier’s novel, The Harp and the Shadow, shines light on the evils of Christopher Columbus with a fictional twist. Victoria Chase states, “Carpentier combines an Old World perspective, formed by tradition, expectation and necessity, with a decidedly New World sense of its origin and history” (Chase 28). This paper will examine despite what Christopher Columbus was famed to be, he is demythologized by Alejo Carpentier’s novel when the true side of Columbus is exposed. Alejo Carpentier

analysing the political changes in Haiti after the French colonial days as described in Alejo Carpentier’s novel ‘El reino de este mundo’. Because two strongly distinctive and contrasting cultures are presented throughout this novel I will be analysing whether or not the process of ‘transculturación’ does develop or if

Viaje a la Semilla es un cuento publicado en 1944 por Alejo Carpentier. Alejo Carpentier nació el 26 de diciembre de 1904 y falleció el 24 de abril de 1980. Alejo fue un novelista y narrador cubano que influyo notablemente en la literatura latinoamericana durante el “BOOM” latinoamericano. La critica lo considera uno de los escritores mas importantes del siglo veinte en lengua castellana, su estilo incorpora varias dimensiones y aspectos de la imaginación para recrear la realidad, elementos que

forgotten–so they can start anew. However, forgetting and remembering tend to blend together. Alejo Carpentier’s novel The Kingdom of This World does just that. Being that it is a historical fiction piece Carpentier makes a conscious choice to leave in historic characters: Macandal, Henri Christophe etc. These characters remind the reader of Haiti’s history, whereas Ti Noel is a fictitious character. Carpentier uses his characters and story plot to remind people what the Haitian nation has fought for

sociological inequity, since the first explorers arrived on the island and demanded that those with darker skins become the slaves of those with light skin. Three particular works of literature, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpenter, and The Farming of Bones by author Edwidge Danticat have recreated the historical scenarios of life in the Caribbean during the time of oppression of the native peoples by white Europeans and shows just how disturbing and destructive attitudes

Following the contemporary style of fiction, magical realism falls into a category of its own, portraying both the roles of fiction and nonfiction. Magical realism takes the reader into a fantastical world, shaped by the author, based on the author’s surroundings, and life experiences. This essay will provide more insight into this style of writing and how it came to be. Taking cited works from multiple sources, this essay will allow one to see examples of excellent works in the style of magical

Magical realism is a form of literary expression traditionally associated with Latin American literature and characterized by a merging of fantastical or mythical elements with realistic fiction, so that it presents a reality in which the mundane is lent a dimension of magic and the “unusual” is normalized. Even this definition of magical realism proves slippery. Whether it can be attributed to literature as a genre or a series of stylistic choices and trademark inclusions has been a great source

Over the course of the semester reading books like “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and “Kingdom of This World” by Alejo Carpentier have revealed another way of seeing the world. Realities of life can be revealed by what an author writes, and how they write it. The last few months have opened a door to a new perspective. That perspective is one shaped by similar forces that shape my own. The difference comes around by way of being on the receiving end of the expansion. For