by Alejo Carpentier · Bruguera · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402075475
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«Los pasos perdidos» is the novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Bruguera in hardcover (282 pages, in Spanish).
A composer trapped in commercial commissions and a directionless relationship accepts a university expedition to document archaic musical instruments. With his lover Mouche he travels up the Orinoco and, venturing into the jungle and living with indigenous communities, confronts his own life and the loss of meaning of modern civilization.
Work originally published in 1953, winner of the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1956. This edition belongs to the Club Bruguera collection, number 44.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Latin American literature, magical realism, and travel narratives with an anthropological background.
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.
