International Event Sartre in
Cuba
Spearheading
thoughts about revolution
A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann
Sonia Sánchez
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE’S NOVEL “La nAUSEe” (Nausea) tO BE LAUNCHED AT INTERNATIONAL EVENT
Well-known
personalities from France (Michel Constant, Daniel Linderberg, Michel Sicurt
and Arno Muster) and Cuba close to the life and work of Jean-Paul Sartre,
who was also a noticeable essayist, playwright and journalist, will attend
the International Event Sartre in Cuba: Hurricane, Furrow, Seed
organized by the ‘Fernando Ortiz’ House of Higher Studies, the Cuban Book
Institute, the Cuban Culture Promotion and Development Center ‘Juan
Marinello’, and Havana Historian’s Office, among other institutions.
"He was a committed intellectual who spearheaded thoughts about revolution and got involved in man’s profound sense of his own conscience. There are none better suited than we Cubans to bring him back”, said Organizing Committee head Dr. Eduardo Torres Cuevas at a press conference.
Sessions will start on November 22 at 7:00 p.m. in Havana University’s Main Lecture Hall. Among the main attractions will be the presentation of ¿Qué es la literatura? (What is Literature?) on the 23rd at the Dulce María Loynaz Cultural Center; Sartre-Cuba, Cuba-Sartre: Hurricane, Furrow, Seed (see above) issued by the Fernando Ortiz House of Higher Studies’ Publishing House, and Sartre’s novel La nausée (Nausea), edited by ‘Arte y Literatura’ (the last two in November 26’s Book Saturday, at 11:00 a.m., Palace of the Second-in-Command in Old Havana).
From
November 21 thru 24 the Chaplin Theater will play a cycle of
documentary films made by French filmmakers, and on the 24th at
Havana’s Trianón theater, group Teatro el Público will present
The Respectful Prostitute (true title of the original play); there
will be a book exhibition at José Martí National Library (Nov. 9 to 25) and
the photographic exhibition "Sartre seen by Korda" will be presented at
Casa de las Américas (starting on Nov. 21st).
Jean-Paul Sartre
Honored in Havana
Havana,
Nov. 23 (AIN) The thinking of philosopher Jean Paul Sartre was highlighted
in the opening ceremony of a forum marking the 45th anniversary of the
French thinker's visit to Cuba. During a lecture at the University of Havana's main hall, Cuban intellectual Alfredo Guevara -who was a close friend of the famous writer- referred to the radicalization of the thinker and author who understood the authenticity and ethical groundings of the Cuban Revolution.
Guevara pointed out the anti-fascist ideas and profound analysis of Jean Paul Sartre and the need to re-think the position of this defender of irrefutable truths.
Xavier
D´Arthuys, a French specialist on Sartre, said that Sartre's popularity and
contributions have not waned in the year of his centennial. A colloquium entitled "Sartre in Cuba: Hurricane, Cultivator and Planter of Seeds," organized by the Fernando Ortiz Higher Studies at the University of Havana, began with a presentation by Professor Eduardo Torres Cuevas, who stressed that for Cuba the thinking of Sartre is a necessary source of reflection.
Sartre
is, said the Torres Cuevas, the most popular philosopher in the 20th
century. "The French intellectual was an uneasy man who searched for signs
of revolution in any part of the world so as to understand and explain them.
For Sartre, socialism was the laboratory of hope," said the essayist. The colloquium which has had a great response from the Cuban academic community will run until Friday and will enjoy the participation of numbers of French thinkers well-versed in Sartre's work.
Sartre "Presente" in Cuba
Havana, Nov 24 (Prensa Latina) Cuban historian and National Social Sciences
Prizewinner 2000, Eduardo Torres-Cuevas, highlighted the work of Parisian
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), an intellectual model committed to Third World
values.
At the international symposium "Sartre in Cuba: hurricane, furrow and seeds," closing Friday in the Habana Libre Hotel, the also-president of the important Fernando Ortiz Studies Center said this symposium would serve as platform to continue studying possible trends of Latin American thought in the 21st century.
Sartre was not selected by chance. His brilliance encourages new reflections on the contemporary world's reality, totally different from the decades of the 50s and 60s characterized by the Cold War and growth of capitalism, he emphasized.
Four French experts on the work and life of the famous philosopher, dramatist, writer and journalist described him as the foremost synthesizer of socialism and historical and dialectical materialism.
Relevant Cuban academics praised Sartre's legacy and recalled his extraordinary experiences in Cuba during his visits, accompanied by famous writer Simone de Beauvoir, in February and October 1960.
Recalling that visit 45 years ago, Cuban dramatist and writer Humberto Arenal pointed out that Sartre understood the essence of the Cuban Revolution, and praised and supported its development.
Arenal and Jaime Sarusky described the visits as acts of vanguard support to Cuba and a reaffirmation of his leftwing ideas.
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Jean Paul Sartre Honored in Havana
Havana, Nov. 23 (AIN) The thinking of philosopher Jean Paul Sartre was highlighted in the opening ceremony of a forum marking the 45th anniversary of the French thinker’s visit to Cuba.
During a lecture at the University of Havana’s main hall, Cuban intellectual Alfredo Guevara –who was a close friend of the famous writer– referred to the radicalization of the thinker and author who understood the authenticity and ethical groundings of the Cuban Revolution.
Guevara pointed out the anti-fascist ideas and profound analysis of Jean Paul Sartre and the need to re-think the position of this defender of irrefutable truths.
Xavier D´Arthuys, a French specialist on Sartre, said that Sartre’s popularity and contributions have not waned in the year of his centennial.
A colloquium entitled “Sartre in Cuba: Hurricane, Cultivator and Planter of Seeds,” organized by the Fernando Ortiz Higher Studies at the University of Havana, began with a presentation by Professor Eduardo Torres Cuevas, who stressed that for Cuba the thinking of Sartre is a necessary source of reflection.
Sartre is, said the Torres Cuevas, the most popular philosopher in the 20th century. “The French intellectual was an uneasy man who searched for signs of revolution in any part of the world so as to understand and explain them. For Sartre, socialism was the laboratory of hope,” said the essayist.
The colloquium which has had a great response from the Cuban academic community will run until Friday and will enjoy the participation of numbers of French thinkers well-versed in Sartre’s work.
Figura
que cubre un amplio espacio dentro de la creación intelectual del siglo XX y uno
de los principales filósofos de la centuria dejada atrás, Jean-Paul Sartre (Francia,
1905-1980) tendrá homenaje en Cuba del 22 al 25 de noviembre próximos, en el
contexto del centenario de su natalicio y del aniversario 45 de su visita a
nuestro país.
La
novela La náusea, de Jean-Paul Sartre, será presentada durante el evento
internacional.