The writer returns in his letters without ever having left. Forty-three years after a journey that some believed to be a journey of death, his farewell is not true, because Alejo Carpentier always lives in his works and in his audiences.
His farewell cannot be indifferent to the evocation of his own. The reunion, in his Cuba of choice, with the men and women of art and literature who miss the emptiness of the Miguel de Cervantes Literary Prize, today takes on life, accuracy, love, strength.
Alejo Carpentier is the expression of the sign of destiny, sustained by an unrenounceable vocation as a writer, he is one of those men who is present in pages and spaces to transcend in time with peculiar charm.
Alejo Carpentier, a symbol for Latin America
Keeping him alive is the great challenge of Cuban literature, which is infinitely grateful to one of the creators of the literary renovation in Latin America, those who recognize a being of superior strength in the world of books.
Music, painting and dance, revive Carpentier, who gave value to the gesture to arouse collective emotion, who saw in the art of dance the gestural alphabet of the body form, who cast the luck to walk the ballet of Cuba with his genuine librettos.
Today his steps are not lost because time does not stop. The century of lights continues to illuminate Latin America, following the history of the peoples. Ecué-Yamba-O continues to be his first novel, a reflection of our ancestral cultures.
His imprint discovers new dawns for his dreams of yesteryear. To do his part in the common transforming task was his greatest disposition.
Alejo Carpentier never claimed honors and privileges as a paradigm of Cultural Counselor of the Cuban Embassy in France, because his homeland, like a ceiba tree with powerful roots, remembers this April 24 the never-ending death of a Cuban writer, father of the marvelous real.
