Biography

Echevarría, Roberto González. Alejo Carpentier, The Pilgrim at Home. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990, 334 p.

Seminal study of Carpentier's life and works, characterizing his literary career as rooted in Latin American modernism that subverts colonial models of the region's history.

Criticism

Adelstein, Miriam. "El acoso: A View of the Dynamic Components of the Protagonist's Psyche." Crítica Hispánica 12, Nos. 1-2 (1990): 141-47.

Interprets the protagonist's quest for self-fulfillment in Manhunt according to the Jungian psychoanalytic concept of "individuation."

Boldy, Steven. "Making Sense in Carpentier's El acoso." Modern Language Review 85, No. 3 (July 1990): 612-22.

Applies literary theorist M. Bakhtin's principle of hypertexuality to the narrative design of Manhunt, demonstrating how the text addresses Caribbean cultural identity in terms of European cultural models.

Sturrock, John. "Ironies of Ignorance." Times Literary Supplement (March 30-April 5, 1990): 339.

Details the narrative ironies of The Chase.

Webb, Barbara J. "The Poetics of Identity and Difference: Black Marsden and Concierto barroco" In her Myth and History in Caribbean Fiction: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant, pp. 129-48. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

Discusses the narrative significance of the relationship between Old World aesthetics and New World realities in Concierto barroco and Wilson Harris's Black Marsden.

Additional coverage of Carpentier's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 65-68, 97-100; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 11; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 8, 11, 38, 110; Dictionary of Literary Biography,Vol. 113; Discovering Authors: Multicultural Authors Module; Hispanic Literature Criticism; and Hispanic Writers.