by Alejo Carpentier · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432220890
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«Ecué-Yamba-O» is Alejo Carpentier's Afro-Cuban novel, published by Seix Barral in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Menegildo, a peasant born near a sugar mill in Cuba, and traces his life from birth to adulthood: rural work, first loves, and contact with Afro-Cuban traditions and mysticism. The prose combines Latin American naturalism with the influence of French surrealism.
Alejo Carpentier's first novel, written in 1927 and originally published in 1933. This 1986 edition belongs to the Literatura Contemporánea collection (no. 76).
For readers of Hispanic American literature who want to discover Alejo Carpentier's narrative beginnings and early 20th-century Cuba.
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