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  • Chapter 22 - The Intermediality of Alejo Carpentier’s La consagración de la primavera

  • from Part III - The Writer of Fiction
  • Edited by Anke Birkenmaier, Indiana University
  • Book:
    Alejo Carpentier in Context
    Published online:
    07 May 2026
    Print publication:
    21 May 2026, pp 261-272

  • Summary

    Approaches to La consagración de la primavera tend to consider that its central aspects are the historical and the autobiographical, judging the text for its ideological dimension and its stance on the Cuban Revolution. However, the omnipresent discourse on the arts and the figure of the artist, the way in which this is dealt with within the narration, as well as the intermedial devices used in it, confer on Carpentier’s penultimate novel the timelessness and universality of the Great Works. By textual analysis and a comprehension of the functioning of Carpentier’s aesthetic system, this chapter offers a humanist reading of a novel rooted in the dream of being a total work that metaphorically encompasses all arts and the writer’s own previous oeuvre.