Sedimentos últimos en Los pasos perdidos de Alejo Carpentier: Contextos ctónicos y espacios simbólicos

2018; University of Puerto Rico; Volume: 46; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/crb.2018.0028

ISSN

1940-9095

Autores

Rafael Climent-Espino,

Tópico(s)

Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez

Resumo

What Alejo Carpentier called 'chthonic contexts' are a tool of literary criticism of extreme value for the analysis of some of his most relevant texts, including The Lost Steps. Nevertheless, the available studies on this Cuban writer's work have overlooked the concept without devoting the attention it deserves. In this essay I reintroduce the idea of chthonic contexts and analyze it in depth in The Lost Steps. This analysis demonstrates that, contrary to what part of the recent bibliography on Carpentier asserts, the last sediment of his writings were not African, indigenous or classical mythology but he delved further, searching for the cultural essences of the human being. Through the analysis of the chthonic contexts in this novel we discover that the last vestiges of Carpentier's prose closely links the human being with nature and its essential elements.

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