Despite the truths embedded in Theodor Adorno’s statement that it’s impossible to write poetry after Auschwitz, it’s equally true that in the face of horrors and traumas of war, lyrical beauty is often the only avenue of catharsis. When Hayv Kahraman recollects episodes from her childhood in a besieged Iraq, she recovers the human warmth that drove away fears while seeking refuge in anti-aircraft shelters. During temporary cease-fires, children left their hideouts and challenged each […]
To be born in the forties of last century in a Cuba in transit between a dictatorship and a revolution that was nothing more than the preamble of another dictatorial regime, growing lulled by black and white Disney cartoons while the news were reporting the final leg of the Second World War, the sorcerer’s apprentice…, all that left a hotchpotch of memories in Jorge Carruana‘s vertiginous imagination. These lasting memories will return as raw images […]
Nacer en los años cuarenta del siglo pasado en una Cuba en tránsito entre una dictadura y una revolución que no era más que preámbulo de otro régimen dictatorial, crecer arrullado por dibujos de Disney en blanco y negro mientras los noticieros daban parte de la traca final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (el imperialismo yanqui arrasando Hiroshima y Nagasaki mientras Micky Mouse jugaba a ser aprendiz de brujo)…, todo eso dejó un batiburrillo de […]
