by Alejo Carpentier · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408463870
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Los pasos perdidos» is the novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Planeta in hardcover (262 pages, in Spanish).
An anonymous musicologist accepts an expedition to collect archaic instruments and travels up the Orinoco with Mouche. Contact with indigenous communities triggers a regressive journey through the ages of the Americas to the origins of language, a reflection on identity and time.
Originally published in 1953, it belongs to Planeta's Clásicos de Nuestro Tiempo collection and won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1956.
Reading for those seeking classics of Latin American narrative and the magical realism of twentieth-century literature.
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.
