Author: Alejo Carpentier
- Fiction
- Seix Barral
- ISBN: 9789688470008
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Through Victor Hughes we follow the impact of the French Revolution in the Antilles, where the inhabitants dreamed of freedom while the guillotine casts its deadly shadow. A novel that can be identified as a true representative of magic realism, and which gives the reader a comprehensive portrait of the atmosphere surrounding the Age of Enlightment.