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"The action of El acosto (1956) unfolds during the 46 minutes of a performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony in a Havana theater where a young man has taken refuge. He has gone from political activism to terrorism and, after enduring torture, to betrayal. His former comrades, now his purs...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | German |
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Leipzig :
Verlag Philipp Reclam jun.,
1976.
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| Edition: | 2. Auflage. |
| Series: | Universal-Bibliothek (Leipzig, Germany) ;
316. Belletristik. |
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| Summary: | "The action of El acosto (1956) unfolds during the 46 minutes of a performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony in a Havana theater where a young man has taken refuge. He has gone from political activism to terrorism and, after enduring torture, to betrayal. His former comrades, now his pursuers, await him in the back rows. Employing his prodigious command of language and narrative technique, Alejo Carpentier recreates in this novel, through a plurality of voices--the narrator, the pursued man, the theater's box office clerk--both the political climate in Cuba during the turbulent years of Gerardo Machado's dictatorship and the aspects that provide the key to understanding the protagonist's life: his political activism, his romantic and familial relationships, his religious concerns, and the torment of his conscience."--Amazon. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: El acoso. German translation (by Hans Platschek) first published by Reclam, 1966. |
| Physical Description: | 94 pages ; 18 cm. |