by Alejo Carpentier · French & European Pubns · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475513843
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«El siglo de las luces» is the novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by French & European Pubns in paperback (365 pages, in Spanish).
Set between the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, it follows Carlos, Sofía, and the adventurer Víctor Hugues, who travels to the Caribbean to spread revolutionary ideals. Carpentier explores freedom, oppression, and the impact of the Enlightenment on the colonial world.
The 1985 edition is a reissue of the novel, originally published in Spanish in 1962.
For readers of Latin American fiction and history with an interest in the age of revolutions and its transformations.
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.
