First Edition The War of Time

[Latin American Literature] CARPENTIER, Alejo. The War of Time. Translated by Frances Partridge. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1970. First edition. 8vo, pp191. Claret cloth in yellow dust jacket. Collection of five fictional novellas and short stories by the Cuban author and musicologist, Alejo Carpentier. Carpentier strongly aligned with Latin American revolutionary movements and found himself deep in the arts and cultural groups of Latin America which lent him to be a great literary influence during the Latin American Boom. This compilation of stories delves into a surrealist work of fiction traveling through South and Central America, Europe, space, (truncated) and time. Carpentier collides the worlds of politics, history, and magical realism in the entirety of his renegade writings. Top of spine of dust jacket slightly pulled and price clipped, dust jacket shows minor foxing. Overall very good condition. (Inventory #: 20015)