Alejo Carpentier

Letters to Toutouche includes a total of 138 documents, comprising letters, postcards, cables, and telegrams, covering nearly a decade of correspondence sent by Alejo Carpentier to his mother during his stay in Paris, from 1928 to 1937. This extensive documentation reflects multiple aspects of Carpentier’s life in his Parisian years: his connections with French intellectuals in general and with the Surrealist group in particular, his relationships with numerous Cuban and Latin American intellectuals, the process of developing many of his chronicles, the completion of his first novel, his contributions to major French publications, as well as other more personal aspects.

Introductory texts and notes by Graziella Pogolotti and Rafael Rodríguez Beltrán.