The memory of death in “Viaje a la semilla”

Abstract

In “Viaje a la semilla,”Alejo Carpentier tries to show in various ways what life, or death, means, on a personal and national level. This paper tries to analyze and explore the incessant and polysemic death through the house, a private-public space where subjects from various times and spaces coexist. Moreover, in order to understand this death, it is essential to analyze time, which cannot separate from memory, since the past and the present coexist in memory. This memory (re)constructs life and death, and moves closer to understanding what death means and represents.