La consagración de la primavera / The Rite of Spring
Novel , 1978
Alianza
Pages: 172
The well-known ballet by Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, with its themes of death and rebirth as nature's rituals, lends its title to one of Alejo Carpentier's most ambitious novels. The plot revolves around two characters: Vera, a Russian dancer who fled her country after the events of 1917 and performs in Diaghilev's company, and Enrique, a member of a wealthy Cuban family who, due to his involvement in the struggle against Gerardo Machado's dictatorship, is forced into exile in the bohemian Paris of the 1930s.