Scrupulous Extravagance
The Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist Alejo Carpentier depicted revolution’s promise as well as its folly.
Explosion in a Cathedral
by Alejo Carpentier, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, with a foreword by Alejandro Zambra
The Lost Steps
by Alejo Carpentier, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, with an introduction by Leonardo Padura
February 22, 2024 issue