An in-depth look into Manuel Rodríguez Ramos’s retrospective novel about the Cuban exile community in Madrid during the latter years of the Franco dictatorship and during the period of transition to democracy after its demise. Presented by the renowned Madrid-based Cuban intellectual Pío Serrano, who will engage in a conversation with the author.
Followed by a Q&A with the audience via Zoom.
[Pictured above: La Gran Vía, Madrid’s most famous thoroughfare.]
This event is part of our CreateNYC Language Access Series on Cuban History, Art, and Literature. It will be held in Spanish.
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Manuel Rodríguez Ramos has excelled as novelist, playwright, filmmaker, and teacher. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and has taught Latin American literature, screenwriting, film directing, and film history in various academic institutions. In 1989 his play El Rey de las Aves was presented at the Casa de la Cultura de Plaza del Vedado. In Cuba he worked as a screenwriter and director for CINED and Cuban television, followed by several years of research in Madrid, where he wrote and developed several documentary projects. He has more than 30 films to his credit, including Tula, a biography of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1987), Lezama, inalcanzable vuelve (1998), Retrato de Gastón Baquero (2014) and Las vivencias poéticas de Francisco Brines (2016). Las estaciones del viajero (Editorial Verbum, 2017) is his first novel. His upcoming projects include a second novel, Las peregrinaciones del forastero, and a biographical documentary on Spanish poet Luis Cernuda.
Pío E. Serrano (San Luis, Oriente, 1941), is a Cuban writer and editor. He
studied Cuban literature at Havana University, where he also taught at the Department of Philosophy. He founded Editorial Verbum in 1990. In 1996, co-founded with Jesús Díaz the prestigious journal Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana. He has lectured and given seminars on Cuban literature at universities throughout Spain, the United States, France, and Italy. Retired since 2012, he presently oversees for Verbum the Cuban Library and Korean Literature collections, his most recent obsession. He is the author of numerous articles and essays on Cuban literature, as well as three books of poetry.
This event is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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