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The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: Alteration Arises Begins Concept Form Marvelous Miracle Reality Take Unexpected

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I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: Composition Harmony Manner Spontaneous Studied Very

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I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: About Accepted Being Century Commission Conquering Cuban End End Result Everywhere Genres Gladly Hand Heard Island Music Musical Our Popular Producing Result Small Uncertain World Would 20Th Century

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Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: After Always Continent Cuban Daily European Faith Final Five Had Impose Less Music Our Own Rejoice Struggle Success Than Those Triumph Who Years

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Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: Burying Daughters Even Forget Moment Poses Themselves

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From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: Beginning Faith Marvelous Sensation

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I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.

~Alejo Carpentier

Topics: Aims Atmosphere Breathed Created Had Incredible Invented Kings Monarch More Much Surprising Than

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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Type: Novelist

Born: December 26th, 1904

Died: April 24th, 1980

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