SOURCE: "Concientización: Keystone to the Novels of Alejo Carpentier," in The International Fiction Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer, 1981, pp. 106-13.
In the following essay, Kirk analyzes the theme of concientización or consciousness-raising as found in Carpentier's work, focusing on El reino de este mundo, Los pasos perididos, and El siglo de las luces.
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