The books Chronicles, The literary utopia in our America and Cubanía versus Plattismo, by the Cuban intellectual Armando Hart, were presented today in Santa Clara by Omar Valiño, director of the José Martí National Library.
The volumes presented by Valiño, before the workers of the Caribe Store Chain, in this city in the center of Cuba, collect political and literary episodes by Armando Hart (Havana, June 13, 1930 – November 26, 2017 ).
A prominent clandestine combatant against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, Hart as Minister of Education in the first cabinet of the Revolutionary Government (1959-1965) led the literacy campaign in Cuba in 1961, an unprecedented historical-cultural event.
Valiño in his words, highlighted that Hart, who when he passed away held the position of president of the office of the Martiano Program and the José Martí Cultural Society, bequeathed a work not only in writing, as he was an intellectual in action, and at the same time that the idea was strong, he did not take pleasure in it, but put it into practice.
“He shows in these books that he was always concerned that the colloquial word and writing remained on paper, which is why it constitutes one of the broadest and most necessary testimonies of the course of the Cuban Revolution from the 1950s to practically today,” he said. .
He said that one of the titles: Chronicles is related to the project that Hart founded with his wife Eloísa María Carrera, who, as a worker at the National Library, has dedicated herself to materialize an archive with the walk of this revolutionary intellectual.
Other volumes include portraits that Hart made about the Latin American and Cuban heroes and patriots: Simón Bolívar, José Martí, Ignacio Agramonte, Rubén Martínez Villena, Julio Antonio Mella and the entire national pedagogical line such as Félix Varela, José de la Luz and Caballero , very useful texts in the biographical sense.
