This chapter discusses the concept of revolution in Carpentier’s works, as it moves from an enthusiastic critique of the modern social order to leftist melancholia. As Rojas shows in his readings of Carpentier’s articles for Carteles and correspondence with José Antonio Portuondo, Carpentier did not take a clear stance toward Stalinism while living in Paris. When living in Venezuela, his Diario is full of critical allusions to the party’s “yoke.” However, a poetics of revolution can be found in his narrative and can be characterized as melancholic in its emphasis on cyclical patterns and on unfinished revolutions. Carpentier’s focus on the global revolutions that made the modern world order beginning in the eighteenth century narrows down in his last epic novel, La consagración de la primavera.