Time War

Guerra del tiempo y otros relatos

★ A Latin American short story masterpiece on par with Borges★ A blend of music, painting, dreams, and legends with ultimate beauty★ Su Tong: "Carpentier's narrative inversion of time astounded me."
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"The candles grew taller, and the wax gradually disappeared. When they returned to their original size, a nun extinguished the candles and took the flame away. The wicks threw away the burnt parts and turned white again."
"The War of Time" is Carpentier's representative short story collection, comprising ten pieces. Employing the texture of a Dalí painting and the structure of a Bach musical, the author constructs ten magnificent and intricate Baroque palaces, encompassing diverse themes such as mythology, allegory, and politics. Their forms are unique and magnificent, their scale and scope are grand and expansive, and their achievements rival those of Latin American short story masters such as Borges and Casares.
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Time may prove that Carpentier's achievements surpass those of any other Latin American writer of his time.
- Harold Bloom disassembles history, reassembles it, and then uses fiction to give it a new look. This is how Carpentier creates literature.
—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

220

9787020165223