by Alejo Carpentier · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432207655
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«Visión de América» is a collection of texts by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by Seix Barral in paperback (188 pages, in Spanish).
Collects texts in which Alejo Carpentier addresses the history, myths, nature, and culture of the peoples south of the Rio Bravo. It includes the chronicles of his travels through Venezuelan territories, the seed of Los pasos perdidos, and articles and lectures portraying the Caribbean area: a journey from the Gran Sabana to the Caribbean through the Amazonian jungles.
This edition, from the Biblioteca Breve collection, includes a prologue by Alejandro Cánovas Pérez.
For readers interested in the culture and history of Latin America and in the essayistic work of Alejo Carpentier.
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.
