| Los pasos perdidos Contributor(s): Carpentier, Alejo (Author) |
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ISBN: 9707320028 ISBN-13: 9789707320024 Publisher: Lectorum, Sa de CV OUR PRICE: $11.31 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: May 2014 Annotation: A composer and his mistress leave New York to travel to the upper reaches of a South American river to collect primitive musical instruments. As they enter into the deepest recesses of the jungle, they also seem to travel back in time until they reach a village untouched by history. This classic magic-realist novel was an important influence on Gabriel Garc??a Marquez. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1390 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.4" W x 8.32" (0.64 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Buscar la utopia es querer encontrar el paraiso, y viceversa. Alejo Carpentier lo intent por medio de un riquisimo lenguaje, de la naturaleza exuberante. Los pasos perdidos es un descenso a las raices, una traves a cargada de s mbolos y de un a ancestral tradici n cultural. Esta novela, escrita narra un viaje de vuelta: el protagonista, music logo, emprende una expedici n al pa s de su infancia en busca de instrumentos musicales primitivos, al mismo tiempo, es una fuga: huye de un trabajo sinsentido, de una sociedad corrompida. |