Fugitive Island?
In my spanish class we have to write papers about obscure hispanic people, only we have to pretend they were actually very important. Anyway I choose a man named Alejo Carpentier and could not find information on the internet about him and there are no books about him in the library so I ordered one called Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at home, it was supposed to be here on tuesday but instead arrived yesterday. It is possibly the most confusing book I have ever tried to read. To show you what I mean here is a little bit from a chapter called Fugitive Island "It has already been seen that Roh's phenomenological version, and Spenglerian and Surrealist variations of the ontological version( these two united by a Romantic and Naturalist substream), offer a clear transcendental side-veiled in the fist case by the term "magic" underlined in the second. But the desire to abolish the the difference between the self and the other , between observer and the cosmos, is undermined in both cases precisely by the use of terms such as "magic" of "marvelous." I don't know what this is trying to tell me and I have not yet come across anything having to do with a fugitive island. Only 175 more pages to go until I am done, Oh joy.