Editing Alejo Carpentier (section)

=== Life in Venezuela ===

In 1945, Carpentier moved to Caracas as an exile. From 1945 to 1959 he lived in [[Venezuela]], which is the inspiration for the unnamed South American country in which much of his novel ''The Lost Steps'' takes place.

He wrote short stories which were later collected in ''The War of Time'' (1958).<ref name="Colchie"/> While in Cuba, Carpentier attended a ''[[santería]]'' ceremony that was to further deepen his interest in Afro-Cubanism. In 1949, he finished his novel ''The Kingdom of this World''. This novel has a prologue that "outlines Carpentier's faith in the destiny of [[Latin America]] and the aesthetic implications of its peculiar cultural heritage."<ref name="Colchie"/>