Intertextualidades religiosas en el arpa y la sombra de alejo carpentier

This article explores how Alejo Carpentier, in his novel El Arpa y la Sombra (The Harp and the Shadow), tells the story of Columbus from irony and parody, aided by the historical research of the twentieth century and the inter texts he regularly goes to. It highlights the hermeneutics of Columbus that transforms ancient texts by making them contemporary to their surroundings. He appears as a medieval and renaissance man, rooted in Catholicism and driven by the boldness and belief of the earth that is made by God to be dominated by man.