Alejo Carpentier and the paths of the Latin-American transculturality

Abstract

Los pasos perdidos, written by the cuban author Alejo Carpentier, is an important novel, inside the reality of twentieth-century Latin-American literature. It process to find the source of the Latin-American’s man and staring of the reporting travel is confirmed by novel’s innovation in its compositive, temporal and ideological levels. In this light, is sought in this article to analyze how, from the chronotope, the novel develops innovations in the time and space, through the studies of Roberto González Echeverría, Angel Rama and the historian Fernand Braudel; establishing relations concerning ideologies formed in the American space.