Book contents
- Alejo Carpentier in Context
- Alejo Carpentier in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Alejo Carpentier’s Life and Works
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I The Making of the Author
- Part II The Polymath
- Part III The Writer of Fiction
- Chapter 17 Alejo Carpentier and Historical Fiction
- Chapter 18 Alejo Carpentier’s First Novel
- Chapter 19 The Translator as Mediator
- Chapter 20 Making Sense of the Senses in Reasons of State
- Chapter 21 Carpentier and the Hispanic Tradition
- Chapter 22 The Intermediality of Alejo Carpentier’s La consagración de la primavera
- Part IV The Cuban Revolution
- Part V Envisioning the Americas
- Part VI Carpentier for Debate
- Index
- References
Chapter 22 - The Intermediality of Alejo Carpentier’s La consagración de la primavera
from Part III - The Writer of Fiction
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Book contents
- Alejo Carpentier in Context
- Alejo Carpentier in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Alejo Carpentier’s Life and Works
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I The Making of the Author
- Part II The Polymath
- Part III The Writer of Fiction
- Chapter 17 Alejo Carpentier and Historical Fiction
- Chapter 18 Alejo Carpentier’s First Novel
- Chapter 19 The Translator as Mediator
- Chapter 20 Making Sense of the Senses in Reasons of State
- Chapter 21 Carpentier and the Hispanic Tradition
- Chapter 22 The Intermediality of Alejo Carpentier’s La consagración de la primavera
- Part IV The Cuban Revolution
- Part V Envisioning the Americas
- Part VI Carpentier for Debate
- Index
- References
Summary
Approaches to La consagración de la primavera tend to consider that its central aspects are the historical and the autobiographical, judging the text for its ideological dimension and its stance on the Cuban Revolution. However, the omnipresent discourse on the arts and the figure of the artist, the way in which this is dealt with within the narration, as well as the intermedial devices used in it, confer on Carpentier’s penultimate novel the timelessness and universality of the Great Works. By textual analysis and a comprehension of the functioning of Carpentier’s aesthetic system, this chapter offers a humanist reading of a novel rooted in the dream of being a total work that metaphorically encompasses all arts and the writer’s own previous oeuvre.
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