Author: ALEXIS, JACQUES STEPHEN & CARROL F. COATES
Title: General Sun, My Brother
Description: University of Virginia Press, 1999. First English Language Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0813918898. Stiff unmarked book in clean blue cloth; about new but for small stamp to front endpaper. ; 6 X 0.94 X 9 inches; 299 pages; The first novel of the Haitian novelist Jacques Stephen Alexis, General Sun, My Brother appears here for the first time in English. Its depiction of the nightmarish journey of the unskilled laborer Hilarion and his wife from the slums of Port-au-Prince to the cane fields of the Dominican Republic has brought comparisons to the work of Emile Zola, André Malraux, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway. Alexis, whose mother was a descendant of the Revolutionary General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, was already a mature thinker when he published General Sun, My Brother (Compère Général Soleil) in France in 1955. A militant Marxist himself, Alexis championed a form of the "marvelous realism" developed by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, who called for a vision of historical reality from the standpoint of slaves for whom the supernatural was as much a part of everyday experience as were social and other existential realities.. Fine with no dust jacket .

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