by Alejo Carpentier · Seix Barral, Colección Antología Literatura, 1987, Barcelona. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432223273
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«El siglo de las luces» is the historical novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by Seix Barral in hardcover (364 pages, in Spanish).
Esteban, Sofía and Víctor Hugues, a Marseille merchant and supporter of Robespierre, experience the arrival of the French Revolution in the Antilles: its Enlightenment ideals, but also the Terror. Carpentier interweaves the struggle for freedom with betrayal and human passions, and shows the tension between the European project and American reality.
This edition, dated December 1986, belongs to the Antología Literatura collection; the work was originally published in 1962.
It will interest readers of Latin American narrative and historical fiction about the Enlightenment and the Caribbean.
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often aligned himself with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-20th century. Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.
