Cuban-born Cuban escriter, whose main work was El Siglo de las Luces (1962), in which, in a Caribbean setting, he interprets the contradictions of the French revolution, its violence and loss of ideals. Son of a French architect, he abandoned (1921) studying music and architecture for journalism and joined a progressive literary movement, the Grupo Minorista. Arrested (1927) for criticizing the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado, he began writing his first in jail. novel, ¡Ecué-Yamba-Ó!, published in Madrid (1933), whose theme is the life and culture of black communities of Cuba.
He was exiled in France (1928-1939), visited Spain during the civil war and then returned to Cuba, worked in the radio and in the press and even taught music at the national conservatory, until (1945) settled in Venezuela. He continued to travel extensively and returned to Cuba (1959), where he supported Fidel Castro's revolution. In He was named Cuban cultural attaché in Paris (1970), a period in his life when he dedicated himself to writing novels, edited in the Caribbean world, in which he reaffirmed his vision of Iberian America. Master of an exuberant baroque style, highlighted by the complexity of narrative structures and historical rigor, he died in Paris, leaving works such as La Música en Cuba (1946), El Reino de This World (1949), Los Pasos Perdidos (1953), Guerra del Tiempo (1958), The Resource of the Method (1974), Baroque Concert (1974), La consecration of spring (1978) and El arpa y la Sombra (1979).
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