Quote by: Alejo Carpentier

The anxious wait lasted four years, and the alert ears never despaired of hearing, at any moment, the voice of the great conch shell which would bellow through the hills to announce to all that Macandal had completed the cycle of his metamorphoses, and stood poised once more, sinewy and hard, with testicles like rocks, on his own human legs" (36-37).


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Author Bio


  • NameAlejo Carpentier
  • DescriptionCuban novelist
  • BornDecember 26, 1904
  • DiedApril 24, 1980
  • CountryCuba
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Essayist; Musicologist
  • WorksThe Kingdom Of This World
  • AwardsMiguel De Cervantes Prize; Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca