El año que viene estamos en Cuba

Gustavo Perez examines relationships, sex, and Cuban American life in this collection of accessible poems. He handles both Spanish and English with seamless assurance. Gustavo Perez Firmat was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Floria.

Por estas páginas, escritas con un punto de rabia y una medida de orgullo, desfilan 35 hombres y mujeres excesivos que pautaron de memorables quijotadas el viaje comprendido entre la Hispania romana y un Estado miembro de la Unión Europea. Castellanos y extremeños, gallegos y aragoneses, valencianos y andaluces, vascos y catalanes. De Viriato a Amancio Ortega, de los Últimos de Filipinas a Clara Campoamor, el lector será testigo de sucesos inalcanzables por la más disparatada fantasía. Y quizá, solo quizá, experimentará una íntima reconciliación con los autores materiales de esa...

Oscar Wilde sostenía que los libros de memorias suelen estar escritos por dos clases de personas: las que tienen muy mala memoria o las que no han hecho nada digno de recordarse. Cumplo ambos requisitos. Estoy sin duda en el segundo grupo y cada día me aproximo más al primero, a pesar de la infalible memoria de la que antes solía tener fama (con perdón de lo dicho por Borges en la primera página de "Funes el memorioso"... Estas páginas recorren setenta años de mi vida. Pasan por allí historias familiares, el colegio, la Facultad de Derecho y las escuelas de Bellas Artes, tantos...

Journalist Juan Cruz confesses in his memoirs, Scrambled Egos, that while he was very young began to be curious to inquire on the most hidden of the creators, to know their concerns, ambitions, anxieties and obsessions. Today, after forty years of dedication to cultural journalism, and after six years as head of a prestigious publishing house, that curiosity for the soul of the artists or the vagaries of literary creation is still as alive as ever, but now enriched by the experience who had the fortune to interview, accompanied as editor and, ultimately, learn about authors from the European...

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