by Alejo Carpentier · Plaza & Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401422843
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«La consagración de la primavera» is the novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
The work takes its title from Stravinsky's ballet and interweaves the lives of Vera, a Russian ballerina who flees after 1917, and Enrique, a Cuban from a wealthy family exiled for opposing Machado. The narrative spans Paris, Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War and Batista's Cuba, in a reflection on art and revolution.
Originally published in 1978, this Spanish-language edition belongs to the Ave Fénix collection from Plaza & Janés.
For readers of Latin American fiction and for those seeking a novel that combines individual destiny with twentieth-century history.
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.
