by Alejo Carpentier · Ediciones Alfaguara, Colección Literatura nº 91, 1982, Madrid. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420421391
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«Ecue-Yamba-Ó» is Alejo Carpentier's first novel, published by Ediciones Alfaguara in paperback (230 pages, in Spanish).
Set in rural Cuba in the early twentieth century, it follows Menegildo from childhood to adulthood. His life, marked by work on a sugar plantation and by religious syncretism, shows the strength of Afro-Cuban traditions and their role in the country's identity. The novel combines social realism with poetic imagery.
Written in 1927, it was originally published in 1933. This 1982 edition is number 91 in Alfaguara's Literatura collection.
For readers interested in Latin American literature and in Alejo Carpentier's narrative beginnings.
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.
