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Baroque Concerto

By آلِخو كاربنتييه

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2021

  • رواية

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During Venice’s carnival, a wealthy Mexican encounters a man dressed as the last Aztec ruler, Montezuma, and meets Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Handel. Time folds as New World history becomes European opera and the traveller’s colonial education begins to shift beneath him. Alejo Carpentier’s dazzling novella stages a musical encounter across centuries, using baroque excess, anachronism and humour to reconsider cultural inheritance and the relationship between Europe and the Americas. Originally written in Spanish as “Concierto barroco”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by Bassām al-Bazzāz.

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