by Alejo Carpentier · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447310142
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«Los pasos perdidos» is the novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by RBA in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
A composer who barely makes a living writing film scores is commissioned to recover archaic musical instruments. With Mouche he travels up the Orinoco into the Venezuelan jungle, and contact with indigenous communities awakens in him a longing for a more authentic way of life, in a journey through the historical stages of America up to language.
Originally published in 1953, it was awarded the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1956; the edition described here dates from 1995.
For readers of Latin American and twentieth-century fiction, with an interest in magical realism.
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.
