‘A True Account of the Conquest of New Spain’: Chicanery, adventures and plunder recounted by a soldier-writer

Alejo Carpentier, a deep connoisseur of the origins, essences and behaviors of New World identity, and the author of the identity concept he called “American Magical Realism” — which he also stylized in his novels — stated that the “discovery” of America, which took place in 1492, was the most momentous event in history, because from that encounter mankind finally had a full understanding of the world it inhabited. What happened from that moment on changed everything. For everyone.

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