by Alejo Carpentier · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432216978
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«El siglo de las luces» is the novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by Seix Barral in paperback (376 pages, in Spanish).
In eighteenth-century Havana, young bourgeois Carlos, Esteban and Sofía see their lives change with the arrival of Víctor Hugues, a West Indian merchant determined to bring the ideals of the French Revolution to the Antilles. The novel explores social change, identity and the weight of ideals on people.
The work was originally published in 1962 and some critics consider it a philosophical rather than historical novel.
For readers of Latin American fiction and novels that combine history and ideas in the colonial Caribbean.
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.
