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Cubarte portal Trotsky, Padura and love for dogs By: Uriel Medina October 15, 2007 A CubaNews translation by Ana Portela. Edited by Walter Lippmann. Havana.- Storyteller, Leonardo Padura, is always news and that is due to his being a hard-working writer, dedicated to his craft, who researches and assumes myths and legends and returns personages and circumstances to us as occurred with his last novel with more than 500 pages where he crafted every little detail. The central role of “El hombre que amaba a los perros (The man who loved dogs) is none other than Leon Trotsky. The author confessed, in a gathering in the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba that the story is one of his greatest obsessions and that is why for several months he had booksellers in Havana asking about him and, as a virtual detective, he took on contradictory and very varied sources to draw up this novel which we will soon be able to enjoy. The novel can be inscribed in the historical genre, with its bit of suspense, because the key story is the murder of Trotsky in Mexico by the Spaniard Ramón Mercader after the Russian toured Europe until he settled in Mexico City after being expelled from the former USSR by his archenemy, Joseph Stalin. At the gathering in UNEAC he learned of the existence of a grandson of Trotsky in Mexico which has sparked a new reason for his investigation, always searching to enrich his own work, where a blending of reality and fiction go hand in hand. The plot is centered on a supposed meeting in Cuba, in Santa Maria del Mar beach, between a young student of veterinary medicine and Mercader himself, hiding under a false identity. His passion for mysteries is not missing in his new narration that always has a dose of literary discourse, has in Padura one of the best in Ibero America. A montage of parallel lines, search in language and mounted in history, direct observation and experience of Mercader who lived for several years with different aliases in our country, give color to this work that we are anxiously awaiting. Source: CubaSi http://www.cult.cu/global/loader.php?&cat=actualidad&cont=showitem.php&id=42328&tabla=articulo
Padura Fuentes, Leonardo ( 1955 - ) Padura was born in Havana in 1955. In 1980 he was graduated in Hispanic-American literature in Havana University. After an intense period as investigative journalist, Padura changed course with the essay Commentary of the Inca Garcilaso, Lo real maravilloso: creación y realidad and has written scripts. In one of his last books, El viaje mas largo, he gathers cultural chronicles, fruit of his collaboration in the Cuban daily, Juventud Rebelde. He has been awarded the Café Gijón Prize in 1995 and the International Award of Crime Novels for Máscaras as well as the 1998 Hammett Prize that is awarded annually by the International Association of Crime writers for Paisaje de otoño. Pasado perfect also is part of the tetrology, Las Cuatro estaciones, that concludes with Vientos de Cuaresma (Uneac Novel Award, Cuba, 1993). All have a peculiar leading role in Lieutenant Mario Conde who, with his crime investigations, offers us a hitherto unknown view of daily life in today’s Havana, very different to what we get in tourism propaganda.
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Trostky, Padura y el amor a los perros Por: Uriel Medina
La Habana.- El narrador
Leonardo Padura siempre es noticia y esto es posible porque se trata
de un escritor laborioso, entregado a su oficio, que investiga, se
adueña y apropia de mitos y leyendas y nos devuelve a los personajes y
sus circunstancias, como sucede con su última novela, que ya cuenta con
más de 500 páginas y sobre la que trabaja hasta el más mínimo detalle,
"El hombre que amaba a los perros", que tiene como protagonista nada
menos que a León Trostky.
Fuente: CubaSí
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