Name: Los Pasos Perdidos (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejo Carpentier
ISBN: 9788420684871

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Physical Book

Author

Alejo Carpentier

Publisher

Alianza Editorial

Synopsis "Los Pasos Perdidos (in Spanish)"

Pieza magistral de la narrativa latinoamericana y perfecta ilustración del concepto de " lo real maravilloso " , " Los pasos perdidos " , publicada en 1953, inauguró el periodo de plenitud creadora de la obra de Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980). Novela inspirada en experiencias personales vividas por el autor en el interior de Venezuela, el viaje que lleva al anónimo protagonista a remontar el Orinoco hasta el interior de la selva en busca de un primitivo instrumento musical, se revela asimismo como un retroceso en el tiempo, a través de las etapas históricas más significativas de América, hasta los mismos orígenes, hasta la época de las primeras formas y de la invención del lenguaje.

Alejo Carpentier

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Alejo Carpentier was born in Havana in 1904, son of a French architect who had settled in the Antilles two years earlier. In 1921 he abandoned his architecture studies and professionally devoted himself to journalism, joining the then-called "Grupo Minorista". In 1924 he was appointed director of the magazine Carteles. Imprisoned for political reasons during the Machado regime, he began writing Ecue-Yamba-O. That same year he participated in the founding of the magazine "Avance". In 1928 he clandestinely embarked for France, where he remained until 1939. Returning to Cuba, he got a job in radio. He traveled to various countries in America and settled in Venezuela from 1945 until 1959, when he returned to Cuba, where he directed the National Publisher. From the end of 1966 he resided in Paris, where he held an important diplomatic position, until his death in 1980. Carpentier published the fiction books Ecue-Yamba-O, The Kingdom of This World (first edition, 1949), The Lost Steps (1953), War of Time (1956), The Chase (1958; Seix Barral, 1987), The Century of the Lights (1952; Seix Barral, 1965), Reasons of State (1974), Baroque Concert (1974), The Consecration of Spring (1978) and The Harp and the Shadow (1979).

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