Abstract

RESUMEN:

Desde los inicios de la Revolución cubana, la revisión del siglo XIX ha sido para muchos artistas cubanos el modo de abordar y enjuiciar su presente. La mirada sobre ese período dotaba a los escritores de una libertad de maniobra, tanto en el campo de las ideas como en el estético, del que no hubiesen gozado de internarse en la etapa revolucionaria. De ello son muestra "Diálogos de vida y muerte" (1961), ensayo de Calvert Casey; La dolorosa historia del amor secreto de don José Jacinto Milanés (1973), pieza teatral de Abelardo Estorino; y las novelas La Loma del Ángel (1987) de Reinaldo Arenas y La novela de mi vida (2002) de Leonardo Padura. A través de estas obras, este ensayo examina cómo los autores referidos no renunciaban a la voluntad de enjuiciamiento, pero dejaban abierta una puerta de escape para protegerse de las lecturas demasiado directas y literales.

ABSTRACT:

From the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, revisiting the nineteenth century provided many Cuban artists with a way to address and judge their present. Focusing on this period gave writers the freedom to maneuver—as much on the battlefield of ideas as that of aesthetics—which they would not have enjoyed had they set their works in the revolutionary era itself. Examples of this trend include "Dialogues of Life and Death" (1961), an essay by Calvert Casey; The Painful History of the Secret Love of Don José Jacinto Milanés (1973), a play by Abelardo Estorino; and the novels Graveyard of the Angels (1987), by Reinaldo Arenas, and The Novel of My Life (2002), by Leonardo Padura. Through an analysis of these works, this essay examines how the referenced authors did not renounce their willingness to judge their present but left open an escape hatch to protect themselves from too literal or direct readings of their work.

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