The settings are given in vivid detail in the novel. Carpentier uses them and their descriptions to help describe the narrator in himself. The settings range from a metropolitan New York City to the South American cities. The novel also goes into the city and the jungle itself. We also are taken to the setting of Santa Monica de los Venados. Moreover, the settings of the individual rooms and buildings within the larger settings also play a pivotal role throughout the novel.

The setting created through the text shape the text as a whole. The true meaning of the novel and the experiences for the narrator are emphasized thoroughly by the settings. The setting is central in that helps create more of an understanding that helps show means of travel through time and helps show the whole travel and discovery of truth that the narrator was seeking. The setting is a key tool that Carpentier uses in this novel and is central to everything that occurs in it.

City and its streets is where the novel begins. In this setting it is present day, and everything is monotonous. And still the streets, buildings, and even the stores are put into great detail. This kind of detail is to have an effect on the novel. By using this portrayal of the setting the narrator is showing the dullness of the metropolis. In the details of his own dwelling and also that of the curator’s apartment, the details are shown to draw out time as if this era of time had stopped and was only repetitive. While in Mouche’s apartment it was different from the ordinariness of the city. This setting helps show the effect of the city on the narrator and helps show how the narrator feels about certain times through this use of setting.

When the first prehistoric city was visited, and the musical instruments were collected, the setting showed the loss of time and how this setting was untouched by civilization. The final stop of Santa Monica is now ancient. This setting, with its calmness brings the truth and what the narrator wa

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