Explosion in a Cathedral

"Whatever the outcome of the battle between nobly expressed 'Words to Intellectuals' and the mechanisms of a bureaucracy already teeming with careerists, one thing at any rate is clear: the most inventive literature published in Cuba since 1959 has little to do with the revolution and would probably have appeared without it. This is true of Alejo Carpentier's novel published in 1962, a work whose revolutionary investigations are tactfully conducted in the eighteenth century, and whose theory of revolution is rather too cyclical and synchronic to fit in neatly with the historical purpose of Cuba today."Carpentier, Alejo is the author of 'Explosion in a Cathedral' with ISBN 9780816638086 and ISBN 081663808X.