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- 02 / 06 / 2010
The section Encuentros presents four articles: that of Carmen Suárez Leon is dedicated to Pedro Pablo Rodríguez (2009 National Social Sciences Award); that of Mercedes Santos Moray to that important personality of Cuban literature that was Virgilio Piñeira; Victor Fowler Calzada gives us La literatura rusa y sus lectores cubanos (Russian literature and its Cuban readers), a theme that is very proper for this month, since Russia is the guest of honor country in this year's Havana
International Book Festival and Yinett Polanco is closing with her tribute to Ambrosio Fornet (2009 National Literature Award).
The usual Entrevista is made by Pedro de la Hoz to Reynaldo González (2003 National Literature Award) and is part of his book Como el primer da (Like on the first day) where the journalist questions personalities from Cuban culture on their opinions ad life experiences from January 1, 1959.
Letras, offers by Graziella Pogolotti (2005 National Literature Award),a work on Spanish Civil War called La flor más roja del pueblo (The reddest flower in town); while people might read from researcher Ana Cairo Alejo Carpentier y España: Una relación de solidaridad y amor (Alejo Carpentier and Spain: A relationship of solidarity and love); and there will be by Roberto Fernández Retamar, president of Casa de las Américas, a text on the literary award of this institution.
Tesoros gives us three articles on Cuban national heritage: Manuel Henríquez Lagarde comments on the new seat of the Cuban National Ballet; Armando Rangel Rivero highlights the importance of Dr. Luis Montané for Anthropology in our country; and we present a fragment of the book by María del Carmen Barcia called Los Ilustres Apellidos: Negros en La Habana Colonial (The famous black surnames in Colonial Havana).
In Artes, Marianela González celebrates the fifteenth birthday of Teatro de Las Estaciones maybe the most important group of this sort to be registered today in Latin America; Jorge Smith is dedicating his work to the Cuban percussionist Guillermo Barreto; and Miguel Cabrera, historian from the Cuban National Ballet, is paying a tribute to the dancer María Elena Llorente.
Leer a Martí proposes us the second part of an essay of the Professor called La verdad sobre los Estados Unido, which was published for the first time on March 23, 1894 in the number 104 of the Patria newspaper and whose last part was published on April 10, of that same year, in the number 107.
You have got hold then, dear readers, a varied selection of texts of clear quality and particular style, accompanied by beautiful aesthetic images that invite you to fully enjoy our magazine. We hope the good taste will last you until the surprised form the next number reaches you.
Source: Cubarte
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