by Alejo Carpentier · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447300433
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«Los pasos perdidos» is the novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by RBA in hardcover (315 pages, in Spanish).
A Latin American musicologist based in the United States ventures into the jungle in search of primitive instruments that would confirm his theory about the origin of music. The expedition, also an escape from an empty life and a corrupt society, becomes a journey to the origins and a questioning of American identity.
Originally published in 1953, this RBA edition (1993) belongs to the Narrativa Actual collection, number 44. In 1956 the novel won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
For readers of 20th-century Hispanic American narrative, magical realism, and classics of Spanish-language 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.
