A Path that Turns into a Man (About a Bestiary) _Por un Extra???o Camino (Bestiario). Libro biling???e, ingles y espa???ol. De la prestigiosa Profesora Felicia Hern???ndez L. To walk. To retrace one's steps. To walk again. A road can be paved or just be a boundary path. It can be directed forward: to the future, to well-being... and also backwards. It may not get anywhere, or have detours contrary to our presumed destination. It may never end. If, in addition to this, its passages are full of (strange?) creatures, from ...
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A Path that Turns into a Man (About a Bestiary) _Por un Extra???o Camino (Bestiario). Libro biling???e, ingles y espa???ol. De la prestigiosa Profesora Felicia Hern???ndez L. To walk. To retrace one's steps. To walk again. A road can be paved or just be a boundary path. It can be directed forward: to the future, to well-being... and also backwards. It may not get anywhere, or have detours contrary to our presumed destination. It may never end. If, in addition to this, its passages are full of (strange?) creatures, from land, water and sky, like a good compendium of beasts humanized with non-compliance, to delve into that road only a little literary expectation rather than an adventurous spirit is enough for us. Cuban professor, writer and translator Felicia Hern???ndez Lorenzo (G???ines, 1957), well known on the insular scene mainly for her high-flying ten-verse stanzas and her essays, (without detracting from the rest of her creative work, inserted in practically all literary genres), proposes a bestiary which she herself tries, modestly, to distinguish from some of her most illustrious predecessors, whom she reminds us of since the very opening of the booklet. Such reminder, in my opinion, is unnecessary because, although she refers to the 20th century two most important Cuban poets: Nicol???s Guill???n and Dulce Mar???a Loynaz; and to the immense Argentinians Julio Cort???zar and Jorge Luis Borges, the poet's animalia -plagued by beings that, in her good words, "mark premises all over with garbage, mud, feces and leftovers"- has features so adjusted, in situ , to a society and a contemporary world that, in all its dimension, it becomes distinctive as compared to preceding literature without this preventing us from recognizing it as being in its intellectual debt. Male chauvinism ( prehistoric beast, the Tyrannosaur's cousin ) bureaucracy ( day by day feeds on red tape, someone else's troubles and others' wait ), corruption ( steps like a wall crushing all that's most holy, no possibility for rehabilitation ), racism ( living fossil ), intolerance ( boasts of pristine truths, veracities resounding, absolute... ), animal violence ( the worst of the beasts with evil habits ), stridency ( takes the sounds out of the toilet ), among other sociocultural topics to be concerned about, are themes dealt with ease and visceral forcefulness, each of them carrying its own animality. The poet does not pass over her need of shaking off other fierceness worthy of defense, those of the soul, where she pays homage with intimate exquisiteness to a crucial inheritance linked to her: creation, poetry and knowledge in the broadest sense, thus including poets such as Oliverio Girondo (also Argentinian), Antonio Machado, Samuel Taylor Colerigde or the rapaill??? Canadian ( qu???b???cois ) Gaston Miron, whose close irreverence and attempt to compile what is "dispersed" is evident at times. La Profesora universitaria, escritora y traductora cubana Felicia Hern???ndez Lorenzo (G???ines, 1957), bien conocida en el panorama insular fundamentalmente por sus d???cimas de alto vuelo y sus ensayos, nos propone un bestiario que ella misma pretende desmarcar, con modestia, de algunos de sus m???s ilustres antecesores, a quienes nos recuerda en la propia apertura del cuaderno. Innecesario es, a mi juicio, pues si bien se refiere a los dos poetas cubanos m???s importantes del siglo XX: Nicol???s Guill???n y Dulce Mar???a Loynaz; y a los inmensos argentinos Julio Cort???zar y Jorge Luis Borges, la animalia de la poeta, plagada de seres que a su buen decir " van marcando el territorio con heces, lodo y basura ", tiene caracter???sticas tan ajustadas in situ a una sociedad y a un mundo contempor???neo, que en toda su
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