Tra avanguardie e mitologie: l'uragano in ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó! di Alejo Carpentier

• Autores: Antonella Cancellier
• Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. Extra 1, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: NUMERO SPECIALE Apocalipsis 2012), págs. 122-127
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The myth of Urakán, the great god of the Antilles, reveals a certain persistence in Cuban literature and in Alejo Carpentier�s production ever since his first text (1917), which was a �pequeña prosa� about the importance of Caribbean cyclone (Alejo Carpentier, Entrevistas, La Habana, Letras cubanas, 1985: 254). This theme, actually, both in his ethical and aesthetic aspects, will recur frequently in his work, with the symbolic and contradictory connotation of Apocalypses