Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea is one of Cuadra's most significant works. On one level it looks back knowingly at Homer's Odyssey, but it also rejects the classical epic in favour of "something humble or marginal, a primitive or naive epic with the characteristics of Cifar the sailor, a restless seafarer and impenitent lover with an adventurous and bohemian soul, who played the harp and the guitar admirably - but even with all his exuberant capacity for adventure, Cifar was no more than a poor, frustrated Odysseus, who drowned, like a humble Li Po, on his way back from a party." Lake Cocibolca, where Cifar's adventures take place, is the repository of legends, fables, and mythical ctions. Lake Cocibolca shapes the destiny of Nicaraguans, because it is the inner sea, placed in Nicaragua's breast, placed within its body as in a case of possession. Cuadra compares Cocibolca to a gigantic mirror, a crystal of Nicaragua's history in which dreams and frustrations are reflected. (Excerpted from Daisy Zamora's Introduction).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:331 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska, Spanska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Shearsman Books
ISBN:9781848618756
Översättare:Adam Feinstein

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Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002) was a Nicaraguan essayist, critic, playwright, graphic artist and one of Nicaragua's most famous poets. In1931 he founded the Vanguardia literary movement with Jose Coronel Urtecho, Joaquin Pasos, and other writers. Cuadra's ground-breaking Poemas nicaraguenses [Nicaraguan Poems] was published in 1934. He opposed the American intervention against Augusto Cesar Sandino in the 1930s and broke with the dictatorial Somoza dynasty in the1940s. In 1954 he became co-director of La Prensa newspaper alongside his cousin and partner, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, who was later assassinated by Somoza supporters. Cuadra himself was jailed in 1956 for his opposition to the regime. In 1961 he became editor of the journal El Pez y La Serpiente [The Fish and the Serpent], which was influential throughout Latin America. Cuadra became an outspoken advocate for Nicaragua's poor, embracing liberation theology and other opinions regarded as subversive by the Somoza government. He later criticised the post-Sandinista National Liberation Front regime for stifling Nicaragua's culture and, for several years afterwards, lived in self-imposed exile in Costa Rica and Texas. His many literary honours included the Gabriela Mistral Inter-American Cultural Prize, awarded by the Organization of American States in 1991.