by Alejo Carpentier · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401421884
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«La Consagración de la Primavera» is the novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
Vera, a Russian ballerina exiled after 1917, performs with Diaghilev's company; Enrique, a wealthy Cuban, goes into exile for opposing Machado's dictatorship. Their lives cross in 1930s Paris and span the Spanish Civil War and the Cuban Revolution, in a reflection on art and revolution as renewing forces.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American literature; the 20th-century political backdrop is central.
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.
