tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567551.post8831207278667757741..comments2023-10-17T10:15:01.021+01:00Comments on Mantex ...: Neglected writers - Alejo CarpentierMANTEXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14711438259770578268noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567551.post-10875301760577905462006-12-08T15:24:00.000+00:002006-12-08T15:24:00.000+00:00Well anonymous, that's a bold encomium - but I agr...Well anonymous, that's a bold encomium - but I agree with what you say about AC's literary qualities.MANTEXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14711438259770578268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6567551.post-50689294117857715162006-12-08T15:04:00.000+00:002006-12-08T15:04:00.000+00:00Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest wirters o...Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest wirters of all times and places. He had magical, ucanny gifts. His ability to describe a huge landscape in one incomparably vivid sentence, his contemptuous flouting of all the conventional rules of fiction-writing such as the need for characters to act and think in a "believable" way, his ability to expand and contract the narrative with fantastic effect, his ability to make the reader think hard.....Thees things are not easy to convey; one has to read this incomparable genius to understand what I mean. He was as great as Tolstoy, as great as Dostoevsky.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com