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Carpentier, Alejo

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Carpentier, Alejo (1904–1980)

Cuban novelist. His weighty novels and stories treat the paradoxes of Latin American history. In Los pasos perdidos/The Lost Steps (1953), a failed musician searches for his roots, and for a return to creativity, as the answer to a sterile city life. This novel also allegorizes the predicament of the Latin American artist coming to terms with the contradictions of society.

Other works by Carpentier include El siglo de las luces/Explosion in the Cathedral (1962), which dramatizes the contradictions inherent in a revolution; Ecue-Yamba-O, an early work of (1933), which portrays the black ethnic culture of Cuba; and El reino de este mundo/The Kingdom of this World (1947) which explores the Haitian revolution led by Henri Christophe against the French colonists in 1791.



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