The Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, who is in Madrid to present “That was willing happen,” an anthology of stories that run your life, create “very positive” the announcement of the restoration of relations between the US and Cuba, but says he misses a greater role for Spain.
“I really believe that Spain has lost prominence in relations with Cuba, as he always had, for example in such important things as the release of prisoners in 2003, when 60 people out of jail thanks to the Government of Spain and the Catholic Church, “said Leonardo Padura (Havana, 1955).
” It also appears that the Spanish business sector, affected by the crisis, it had slowed. And I’m sorry adds because Spain is a historical and human relationship that exists with other countries, “says the author of” The Man Who Loved Dogs “.
And that Padura, one of the most important Cuban writers of the letters in Spanish, creator of Inspector Mario Conde, said “the problem of Cuba are really finance; why he said it is essential to end the embargo ASAP. The economy is unfinished business. “
” In recent years in Cuba things are moving slowly, but move, even from outside is not considered so much, but now is the permission to travel, before you could not be online for a cell … anyway. Hopefully the changes were more dynamic and we could all see the end of the game. “
” Just being Italian Foreign Minister, next month comes Hollande, something is moving “qualifies the narrator, journalist and
. screenwriter Leonardo Padura is in Spain not only to present his latest book “That was eager occur” (Tusquets), but also to close all film projects that have open as scripts conclude that has prepared for film and TV series about his character, Cuban police inspector Mario Conde, a symbol of the disappointment of the Cuban revolution.
Will the novel “Winds of Lent” impregnated also magical realism, eroticism and music, to be carried to the movies and then this also the first chapter of a series of four television. A large project in a few weeks will begin to be filmed in Cuba and come to Spain in a year.
Now, for the moment, is published in Spain “That was willing happen,” the last book of author, who may also be the frieze of the emotional history of Cuba in the last 30 years.
“This book is a kind of personal anthology of short stories my argumentation since the eighties until 2000. They are looks, personal moments and a Cuba that has changed, eighties when lived well by Soviet support: you could buy a few extra shoes, you could go to a small restaurant to eat or go even little hotel in Varadero, until nineties we fell background through the gap in the crisis. “
” In the nineties 90 began the Special Period, which ended in the late nineties when he began a modest recovery that reaches today, but with a Cuba that is already very different, “he said.
In this storybook, Leonardo Padura contains all the aroma of habanero universe stories featuring Cuban who left, others who reunite, magical singers boleros in Havana night or poets in search of stories because they want to be writers.
Stories, all of them moving full of life, eroticism, love and nostalgia.
Padura also see how soon opens in your country “Return to Ithaca,” the film whose script is author, directed by Laurent Cantet and could not see last year at the Festival de Cine de La Habana, when it was scheduled.
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