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The work of Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) is rich, profound and paradigmatic for the conceptual strength that penetrates it and for the artistic-literary values that it unlocks and unfolds. This essay proposes a reflection that integrates the essential elements of his work: his cosmovision, his marvelous reality, his man, his culture and his history. It is a speech of honor, founded on a vast humanist culture, which captures reality, always in a relationship with man or mediated by him. It highlights how, with mastery and professionalism, its narrative captures the human personality in diverse mediations and conditions, in its individual and social nature and in its strength and fragility. It is concluded by validating the idea that, in his works, he portrays the human being in his multiple contextual reality, including the spiritual world and its possibilities of achievement; without the need to explicitly announce the man as a specific object of analysis, he is central to the historical-cultural plot in which his activity is embodied.
