by Alejo Carpentier · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420655499
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«El siglo de las luces» is the historical novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Alianza in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Víctor Hugues, a merchant and adventurer from Marseille and a supporter of Robespierre, exports the ideals of the French Revolution to the Antilles. Alongside him, the idealist Esteban and the determined Sofía experience the contradictions of the revolutionary process: the promise of freedom clashes with violence and ambition in the Caribbean colonies.
The book, originally published in 1962, corresponds in this Alianza edition to number 0197 of El Libro de Bolsillo, Biblioteca Carpentier, and dates from 2004.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American narrative interested in the colonial Caribbean and Enlightenment ideals.
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.
