looks A follower of Havana
@ s Dear readers and visitors of this humble library: Today was one of those days when I gave my usual back in search of my beloved 'Cuban books' ... and on top was the intuition that it would not find anything, also was a day dreary, rainy, cold, "but to my surprise I found one of those books that had no hope, so much time looking.
Here I show the citation, to share with you. This happy discovery.
a follower of Montaigne MIRA LA HABANA. DEEP FOODS
. Antonio José Ponte
Mardid Editorial Verbum, Spain. 2001
80 pages
Here is complete information on the back cover:
Two splendid works together, by way of communicating vessels in one book, the first thing the young Cuban writer Antonio José Ponte published in Spain.
carnival for its innovative fusion of narrative, poetry and essays, for his ingenious blend of autobiography and fables, and its striking baroque writing, richly imaginative and highly literary maturity, which connects with the great tradition of modern Cuban and Latin American literature, Put this seductive book is not only one of the "highlights" of the English publishing scene, but also the discovery for the reader and the critic of one of the key authors and Latin American literature of the century.
"A follower of Montaigne looks Havana": Founder, surveyor and passerby, asked the city of origin, imagine your own home: "It all started with me in Matanzas, in my birth. Then started again when I got to Havana ".
Imagine the city turned into books, houses, people, streets, places, lost, fable of a single afternoon in Granada, the fictional town of Lezama, the city interview, written in the imagination and the dream of memory and books Travel: Havana, a metaphor of the world, nostalgia of Havana, convered in lines, faces, eyes.
Before an empty table in Havana, covered by a cloth drawn food, a writer with white stomach invokes the spirit of "deep Meals" and exercise your patience figuring on a sheet where they come from the tasty meals : Pineapple Charles V, the old childhood meals rejected the false etomología of apricots, dinners Cuban timber of the Marquise de Mont-Roig, gastronomic cases Apollinaire and Saint Petersburg, the apocryphal story of the flesh , the illusory alternative meals and menus imaginary, the potions of surprising names (Champagne hammock, get the Blumer, escupelejos, wait on the floor, Pyong Yang, tiger bone) marinated metaphysical recipes, chili and the Pru, these Cuban culinary miracles. _________________________________________
be good is the only way to be happy.
Being educated is the only way to be free. José Martí
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