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Published on Sep 12, 2023 | 12 Hours 43 Minutes
Buscar la utopía es querer encontrar el paraíso, y viceversa. Alejo Carpentier lo intentó por medio de un riquísimo lenguaje, de la naturaleza exuberante. Los pasos perdidos es un descenso a las raíces, una travesía cargada de símbolos y de una ancestral tradición cultural. Esta novela, escrita bajo el imperio del barroco, narra un viaje de vuelta: el protagonista, musicólogo, emprende una expedición al país de su infancia en busca de instrumentos musicales primitivos; al mismo tiempo, es una fuga: huye de un trabajo sin sentido, de una sociedad corrompida. La obra marca un punto cimero en el desarrollo de la novela latinoamericana, que la sitúa de lleno en la literatura universal a mediados del siglo veinte y constituye un momento de madurez nunca antes alcanzado en la narrativa iberoamericana.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION:
A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization—the upper reaches of a great South American river—in this “novel of remarkable beauty, intellectual worth, absorbing interest, and genuine originality.” —The Saturday Review (London)
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION:
A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization—the upper reaches of a great South American river—in this “novel of remarkable beauty, intellectual worth, absorbing interest, and genuine originality.” —The Saturday Review (London)
Author
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) was one of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century, as well as a classically trained pianist and musicologist. His best-known novels are The Lost Steps, Explosion in a Cathedral, and The Kingdom of This World. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and raised in Havana, Cuba, Carpentier lived for many years in France and Venezuela before returning to Cuba after the 1959 revolution. A few years later he returned to France, where he lived until his death.
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