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Intensa vida, La in Franklin, TN
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Intensa vida, La in Franklin, TN
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Zoé Valdés creció en La Habana de la década de los sesenta, como una niña inquieta y resabiada, entre las privaciones y el férreo control de la dictadura castrista. Por entonces no sabía que, con el correr del tiempo, se convertiría en la escritora cubana más célebre de su época. Pero las ansias de libertad, como en tantos otros casos, acabaron a la postre por imponerse, y en 1995, invitada a unas jornadas sobre José Martí en París, pidió asilo político en el país galo. Esa decisión marcaría su vida y sería el comienzo de una larga serie de reconocimientos y galardones a una trayectoria literaria fecunda e intachable. En La intensa vida Zoé echa la vista atrás y recuerda la tierra en la que nació y sus gentes, así como los inicios de su pasión por la escritura. Las historias más divertidas y entrañables se dan la mano con los momentos amargos, en los que la sombra del régimen de Castro —mal que pese a muchos— deja ver su verdadera faz. Pero también tienen aquí cabida episodios parisinos de inmersión en una nueva cultura, extraña pero fascinante, o advocaciones como la de Samuel Beckett, configurando así una suerte de memorias sin afán exhaustivo y con la impronta genuina de una escritora de raza, que convierte en literatura todo lo que toca.
Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable literary career. In “The Intense Life" Zoé looks back and remembers the land in which she was born and its people, as well as the beginnings of her passion for writing. The funniest and most endearing stories go hand in hand with the bitter moments, when the shadow of the Castro regime reveals its true face. But there is also room here for Parisian episodes of immersion in a new culture, strange but fascinating, or titles such as that of Samuel Beckett, thus configuring a sort of memoirs without an exhaustive desire and with the genuine imprint of a writer of race, who turns everything she touches into literature.
Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable literary career. In “The Intense Life" Zoé looks back and remembers the land in which she was born and its people, as well as the beginnings of her passion for writing. The funniest and most endearing stories go hand in hand with the bitter moments, when the shadow of the Castro regime reveals its true face. But there is also room here for Parisian episodes of immersion in a new culture, strange but fascinating, or titles such as that of Samuel Beckett, thus configuring a sort of memoirs without an exhaustive desire and with the genuine imprint of a writer of race, who turns everything she touches into literature.
Zoé Valdés creció en La Habana de la década de los sesenta, como una niña inquieta y resabiada, entre las privaciones y el férreo control de la dictadura castrista. Por entonces no sabía que, con el correr del tiempo, se convertiría en la escritora cubana más célebre de su época. Pero las ansias de libertad, como en tantos otros casos, acabaron a la postre por imponerse, y en 1995, invitada a unas jornadas sobre José Martí en París, pidió asilo político en el país galo. Esa decisión marcaría su vida y sería el comienzo de una larga serie de reconocimientos y galardones a una trayectoria literaria fecunda e intachable. En La intensa vida Zoé echa la vista atrás y recuerda la tierra en la que nació y sus gentes, así como los inicios de su pasión por la escritura. Las historias más divertidas y entrañables se dan la mano con los momentos amargos, en los que la sombra del régimen de Castro —mal que pese a muchos— deja ver su verdadera faz. Pero también tienen aquí cabida episodios parisinos de inmersión en una nueva cultura, extraña pero fascinante, o advocaciones como la de Samuel Beckett, configurando así una suerte de memorias sin afán exhaustivo y con la impronta genuina de una escritora de raza, que convierte en literatura todo lo que toca.
Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable literary career. In “The Intense Life" Zoé looks back and remembers the land in which she was born and its people, as well as the beginnings of her passion for writing. The funniest and most endearing stories go hand in hand with the bitter moments, when the shadow of the Castro regime reveals its true face. But there is also room here for Parisian episodes of immersion in a new culture, strange but fascinating, or titles such as that of Samuel Beckett, thus configuring a sort of memoirs without an exhaustive desire and with the genuine imprint of a writer of race, who turns everything she touches into literature.
Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable literary career. In “The Intense Life" Zoé looks back and remembers the land in which she was born and its people, as well as the beginnings of her passion for writing. The funniest and most endearing stories go hand in hand with the bitter moments, when the shadow of the Castro regime reveals its true face. But there is also room here for Parisian episodes of immersion in a new culture, strange but fascinating, or titles such as that of Samuel Beckett, thus configuring a sort of memoirs without an exhaustive desire and with the genuine imprint of a writer of race, who turns everything she touches into literature.