by Alejo Carpentier · Bibliotex · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303001
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«El siglo de las luces» is the historical novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Bibliotex in hardcover (318 pages, in Spanish).
The plot follows three young Creoles who cross paths with Victor Hugues, an Antillean merchant determined to bring the ideals of the French Revolution to the Caribbean. Carpentier portrays the tension between dreamed freedom and the violence of the guillotine, with exuberant prose and a lucid gaze on the contradictions of history.
The novel was originally published in 1962; this 2001 Bibliotex edition includes a prologue by Eugenio Trías.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American literature, as well as for those studying the impact of the French Revolution in 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.
