Kingdom of Man

El reino de este mundo

★ The classic novel that inspired Chen Zhongshi to write "White Deer Plain" and influenced a generation of Chinese writers including Mo Yan and Su Tong★ The epoch-making work that defined "magical realism"★ A world-class writer who changed the history of literature and one of the literary classics of the 20th century.
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“One never knows for whom one toils, for whom one waits…Those who have endured hardships and struggled endlessly, those who are humble yet noble in spirit, those who have experienced many hardships but still retain their love, can only find their greatness and reach the highest point in this human kingdom.”
The Kingdom of This World is a pioneering work of "magical realism" fiction. Following lengthy and arduous field research, Carpentier, set against the backdrop of Haitian independence, depicts the inescapable historical cycle of humankind, thereby fulfilling the writer's duty to remind the public to remember their nation's history.
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Time may prove that Carpentier's achievements surpass those of any other Latin American writer of his time.
—Harold Bloom The Kingdom of This World is probably Carpentier’s best novel and one of the most accomplished Spanish-language novels of this century.
—Mario Vargas Llosa Carpentier changed the form of the Latin American novel. He transcended naturalism and created magical realism. We are all grateful for his legacy of language and imagination. We are all his descendants.
—Carlos Fuentes

2021-07-01

人民文学出版社

140

9787020165230