Reasons Of State

Reasons Of State by Alejo Carpentier


ISBN
9781612192796
Published
Released
01 / 10 / 2013
Binding
Paperback
Pages
382
Dimensions
127 x 202mm

One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cubaand#39;s most important modern novelistandamp;mdash;to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garcandamp;iacute;a Mandamp;aacute;rquez, 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. Garcandamp;iacute;a Mandamp;aacute;rquez 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 asthe 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 circulatingamong 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.
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