The Chase

The Chase

Alejo Carpentier
Translated by Alfred Mac Adam
Introduction by Timothy Brennan

See also:
The Lost Steps
Explosion in a Cathedral
Music in Cuba

$18.50 Paper
ISBN: 0-8166-3809-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3809-3

"In a nameless, Havana-like city, an anonymous man flees a team of shadowy, relentless political assassins, and ultimately takes refuge in a symphony auditorium during a performance of Beethoven's Eroica. . . . This nightmarish novel does not so much tell a story as map the secret political infrastructure of cities, governments, churches, music, and bodies." —The Independent

"Carpentier was one of the early giants of modern Latin American literature, a man whose writing helped shape and define the period of 'magic realism.' . . . [The Chase is] a masterpiece." —New York Times Book Review

"A taut tale of political violence and psychological suspense." —San Francisco Chronicle

"From the opening scene in the lobby of the theater during intermission to the last moments. The Chase is furiously cinematic. One can almost feel the heat of the lobby, hear the heartbeat of the Hunted One, and sense the presence of his hunter." —Review of Contemporary Fiction

"One of the few perfect novellas in Spanish." —G. Cabrera Infante

Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier (19041980) was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of politics and literature. Best known for his novels, Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. Born in Havana, he lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the 1959 revolution.

136 pages | 5-3/8 x 8-1/2 | 2001



The Chase Alejo Carpentier Translated by Alfred Mac Adam Introduction by Timothy Brennan See also: The Lost Steps Explosion in a Cathedral Music in Cuba		$18.50 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-3809-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3809-3
"In a nameless, Havana-like city, an anonymous man flees a team of shadowy, relentless political assassins, and ultimately takes refuge in a symphony auditorium during a performance of Beethoven's Eroica. . . . This nightmarish novel does not so much tell a story as map the secret political infrastructure of cities, governments, churches, music, and bodies." —The Independent "Carpentier was one of the early giants of modern Latin American literature, a man whose writing helped shape and define the period of 'magic realism.' . . . [The Chase is] a masterpiece." —New York Times Book Review "A taut tale of political violence and psychological suspense." —San Francisco Chronicle "From the opening scene in the lobby of the theater during intermission to the last moments. The Chase is furiously cinematic. One can almost feel the heat of the lobby, hear the heartbeat of the Hunted One, and sense the presence of his hunter." —Review of Contemporary Fiction "One of the few perfect novellas in Spanish." —G. Cabrera Infante Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier (19041980) was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of politics and literature. Best known for his novels, Carpentier also collaborated with such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. Born in Havana, he lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the 1959 revolution. 136 pages \| 5-3/8 x 8-1/2 \| 2001