The Main Aspects of the Latin American Worldview in the Novels of Alejo Carpentier “The Kingdom of the Earth”, “Lost Tracks” and “The Age of Enlightenment”

This article will focus on how the novels of Alejo Carpentier “The Kingdom of the Earth”, “Lost Tracks”, “The Age of Enlightenment” revealed the main aspects of the Latin American worldview. Despite the fact that the original aspects of Latin American literature appeared already in the XVII century, the first attempts to comprehend the key features of the Latin American world appeared already in the twentieth century. The first structured cultural concept of Latin America was created by the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier. To understand the Latin American worldview, he introduced the concept of “wonderful reality”, which was supposed to denote the essence of the Latin American world. In his novels “The Kingdom of the Earth”, “Lost Tracks”, “The Age of Enlightenment” Carpentier tries to look at the Latin American essence from the point of view of representatives of different peoples of America: African Americans, Indians and Creoles.