by Alejo Carpentier · Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437605029
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«Los Pasos Perdidos» is the novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by Cátedra in paperback (332 pages, in Spanish).
A jaded intellectual embarks on a journey that takes him deep into the Amazon rainforest. The trek through Latin America becomes a descent into the primitive and an inquiry into identity, history, and the meaning of existence. Music and contact with isolated communities heighten his estrangement from civilization.
The novel was originally published in 1953; this Cátedra edition (1985) includes the edition by Roberto González Echevarría and belongs to the Letras Hispánicas collection.
A work for readers of twentieth-century Latin American fiction and of travel and introspective novels.
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.
