by Alejo Carpentier · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420603292
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«Los pasos perdidos» is the novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Alianza in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
A composer fleeing his life in New York accepts a university-funded expedition to search for archaic instruments among Orinoco tribes. The journey into the Venezuelan jungle becomes a descent through the historical stages of America, to the origins of language, while he questions his identity and civilization.
Originally published in 1953, it was awarded the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1956 and is considered a key work of the marvelous real in Latin American narrative.
For readers of Latin American fiction, magical realism, and twentieth-century classics, as well as for literature students.
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.
