Carpentier, Alejo - James Nelson Goodsell (review date 1970)
James Nelson Goodsell (review date 1970)
SOURCE: "Pilgrims, Plunderers," in Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 62, No. 278, October 22, 1970, p. 9.
[In the following assessment of The War of Time, Good-sell finds Carpentier's tales inferior to his novels, but considers them significant for the light they shed on Carpentier's craft.]
Coming through Cuba's curtain of suspicion, the writings of Alejo Carpentier are like a warm sun as it penetrates the mist and clears the atmosphere. For Carpentier, a Havanaborn Cuban of French and Russian parentage, is one of the most versatile authors on the Latin American scene today. He is thoroughly Cuban, but his themes are wide-ranging, frequently universal, and generally quite imaginative. War of Time is a smallish collection of stories—three first published in Spanish in 1963 and two first published in French in 1967. They open up still more insights into the thought of...
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