by Alejo Carpentier · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401422324
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«La consagración de la primavera» is the novel by Alejo Carpentier, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
The novel interweaves the lives of Vera, a Russian ballerina exiled after 1917 who performs with Diaghilev's company, and Enrique, a Cuban exiled in Paris for his opposition to the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado. Through them, the Spanish Civil War and the Cuban Revolution pass by, in a reflection on art, history and renewal.
This Plaza & Janés edition was published in 1992 and belongs to the Biblioteca de Autor collection.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Latin American narrative and the relationship between art and revolution.
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.
