MADRID, Spain.- The latest publication by Cuban writer Abilio Estévez, How I Met The Tree Planterbrings together a series of stories that, although written outside of Cuba, recall the island as a “lost paradise”, defined as such by the writer himself.
Published last November by Editorial Tusquets, the book recreates characters who invent a parallel reality to endure the meanness of day to day, which in the midst of an incomprehensible disaster they propose to resist.
“I think it’s a book about wandering, about losing your place, I mean, about forcing yourself to lose your place, trying to have it from the fabulation of memory, a world of fiction. It is a book about restoring a place through the fact of having to narrate it, searching for literary keys”, explained Estévez in a recent interview with the Spanish media. The reason.
According to the critic Juan Herranz, How I Met The Tree Planter is one of the writer’s three best publications, along with Yours is the kingdom Y Archipelagos.
On the meaning of the stories, Herranz explained from his blog specializing in literature: “No stateless person is as stateless as a continental islander inland. Because there are no more paradises than the certain ones lost, but the islands are the last possible paradises in the merely geographical. This is how a powerful telluric claim towards people like Abilio is understood.
In this regard, it is worth remembering that Abilio Estévez has lived in Spain for 21 years.
The writer, who turns 69 this January 7, also includes a dozen plays in his work, including The true guilt of Juan Clemente Zeneto and Saint Cecilia; as well as two books of short stories, the collection of poems manual of temptations and the novels Distant Palaces, Secret Inventory of Havana, The Year of the Calypso, The Russian Dancer of Monte Carlo Y the sleeping navigator.
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