CONCIERTO BARROCO.
México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1974. Fourth edition. Paperback. 92p., illus., wrps. Near Fine. Item #192318
In this delicious, purposeful and liberating novel, the author uses the resources of the baroque: parody, artifice, hyperbole and proliferating enumeration, with greater liberality; It breaks with the bonds of historical chronology and acquires an extraordinary sense of humor. The book tells the story of the staging of an opera by Antonio Vivaldi, premiered at the Sant`Angelo theater in Venice, in the fall of 1733, which narrates the defeat of Moctezuma by the Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés. The theme could not be more conducive to Carpentier's pen, since it is a baroque opera, which also allows us to confront two histories, two cultures, two worlds -America and Europe-, from whose opposition arises, in Carpentier's view, precisely the wonderful real.
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