Havana .- Cuba chained Notimex homage to José Lezama Lima to celebrate the centenary of his birth, and as "an act of justice" to the writer, and a reflection of interest in his work generated in the past decades. Opened an art exhibition in the Museum of the author, located in a central district of Havana, with works inspired by "the creative spirit Lezama." Tributes have covered almost all artistic and institutional initiatives have also existed such as the Ministry of Culture of Cuba to grant a "Centennial Commemorative Medal of José Lezama Lima" to various personalities. "What is happening is an act of poetic justice, historic, patriotic, because Lezama is one of the best of our culture," he told Efe the National Literature Prize César López, in assessing the tributes made on the island. "It is not correct, but to understand, overcome misunderstandings Lezama suffered in life," Lopez said, stressing that the poet's legacy extends to Latin and "goes beyond language, a universal culture."
The appearance of "Paradiso" in 1966 generated much controversy in Cuba for his open homosexual references and partly caused the work and figure of Lezama Lima were neglected for years. The narrator and essayist Reynaldo González, who has devoted three books to the figure of Lezama, told Efe that the poet's life was never easy, since before the 1959 Revolution was not understood, and then also came under attack and an "eclipse."
The appearance of "Paradiso" in 1966 generated much controversy in Cuba for his open homosexual references and partly caused the work and figure of Lezama Lima were neglected for years. The narrator and essayist Reynaldo González, who has devoted three books to the figure of Lezama, told Efe that the poet's life was never easy, since before the 1959 Revolution was not understood, and then also came under attack and an "eclipse."
The National Book Award also insisted that while Lezama suffered the same "silence" that other artists in Cuba during the period of cultural repression of the seventies, eighties from the figure is "restored." "The centennial activities only accentuate a recovery since then has been consistent," said Gonzalez.
Probably the most important action this year was the beginning of the publication of the complete works of Lezama Lima, of which two volumes have already come under the coordination of Instituto Cubano del Libro, while the rest should appear in 2011. According to Lopez, the outstanding volumes of poetry include complete printing, tenth, essays and a "final version" of his unfinished novel "Oppiano Licario" which was published posthumously in 1977.
Meanwhile, last month the International Ballet Festival of Havana organized a gala in honor of Lezama, while the Cuban Language Academy opened a series of lectures for a period of three months.
addition, the Cuban capital was an international colloquium on the author concluded with a pilgrimage to his tomb and placing a new inscription on his tombstone. The president of the ruling Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, Miguel Barnet, described as "very intense" the "day Lezama" on the island. According to Barnet, Cuba led the tributes to counter the "campaign" on the outside, particularly from the United States tried to take a Lezama as "symbol." The poet and ethnologist recalled the "vicissitudes" it went through the work of Lezama Lima in Cuba, but insisted that now "is recognized by all writers and artists" in the country. This recognition extends to "a lot of readers, which soon are slowly penetrating this world that for some it was dark and secretive, but for us it's really an extraordinary light, "said Barnet.
Lezama Lima was born on December 19, 1910 at Camp Columbia, near Havana, where his father was a colonel. Once in the capital, participating in student uprisings against the dictatorship of Machado and enrolled in law. From 1929 until his death, will live first with his elderly mother and, later, with his wife in a house in the old part of town, barely tolerated by the regime, and only leave the island during two brief stays in Mexico and Jamaica. Poet, essayist and novelist, patriarch invisible Cuban literature from 1944 to 1957. He founded the magazine "Verbum" and was in charge of "Origins", the most important Cuban literary journals. Obese, asthmatic since childhood, died in Havana on August 9, 1976. Knowing deep
Góngora, Plato, poets and philosophers Orphic Gnostics, Lezama epitomized his life in the love of books. His work is saturated culteranismo key, puzzles, allusions, parables and allegories that refer to a really secret, intimate and at the same time, ambiguous. Developed an erotic writing, in advance, so to European currents of structuralist stylistics. His essays are imaginative, poetic, open up a recreation of texts and visions. Promoter of magazines and literary groups, gather around him knew poets of the stature of Gastón Baquero, Cintio Vitier, Eliseo Diego, Virgilio Piñera and Octavio Smith, among others. His friendship with poet and English priest Angel Gaztelu (1914), contributed to the formation of their spiritual world.
His first book of poems was "Death of Narcissus" (1937), and he enjoins the reader to face an extreme situation where the reality of another reality emerges dismantling artistically enhanced and reconstructed in a fascinating and Baroque mythology. Follow, including poetry, all influenced by the style rich in metaphor and full of distortions of Góngora, "Enemy Rumor" (1941), "Concealed Adventures" (1945), "Giver" (1960) and "Fragments of a magnet "published posthumously in 1977, which continues to demonstrate that poetry is a risky venture.
In 1966 he published the novel "Paradiso", where it spills all his poetic career baroque character, symbolic and initiatory. The protagonist, José Cemi sent immediately to the author in his internal and external evolution of his conversion into a poet. Cuban, with verbal deformation plays a fundamental role in the work, as in his collection of essays "The amount haunted" (1970). "Oppiano Licario" is an unfinished novel, published posthumously in 1977, developing the figure of the character which appeared in Paradiso and taking title. Lezama Lima greatly influenced in many Hispanic and English writers, some of whom came to regard his master, as is the case Sarduy.
Works:
Story: Stories (1987, posthumous edition).
Essay: Aristides Fernandez (1950) / clock Analecta (1953) / The expression American (1957) / Treaties in Havana (1958) / The amount spellbound (1970) / The imaginary eras (1971) / Picture and possibility (1981, posthumous edition).
Novel: Paradiso (1966) / Oppiano Licario (1977, posthumous edition).
Poetry: Death of Narcissus (1937) / Enemy rumor (1941) / Adventure Stealth (1945) / The fixity (1949) / Giver (1960) / Complete Poems (1974) / Fragments of a magnet (1977, posthumous edition).
Biography: http://www.cce.ufsc.br
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