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HAVANA, Cuba.- In An inaccurate measurement published in 2017 in Spain by l 39; publisher Verbum, in his series Biblioteca Cubana, the poet and essayist of Cienfuegos Reinaldo García Ramos, exiled since 1980, has collected fifteen of his essays and commentaries that have remained forgotten for having appeared in magazines and publications difficult to find today. 39; hui.
as explained in an introductory note, "put at the reader's fingertips what for years I could fix on paper with intentions of reflection or clarification, or simply memorable observation and place these ideas in a polyphonic space, without looking for chronological order, but rather a timeless play of repercussions. "
Liliam Moro, who introduced the book, sees García Ramos' compliance with" his ethical responsibility to put the things in place so that the institutionalized perversion does not remain unpunished after the systematic erosion of our national past. "
In this book, after making the reservation that" there is no eternal truths, it is well known "García Ramos renders judgments about writers as different as José Martí, the Italian-Cuban Orestes Ferrara, José Manuel Poveda and Reinaldo Arenas, as Sergei Urusevsky himself, responsab the extraordinary photograph of the Soviet mammoth film Soy Cuba, or one of Guillermo Cabrera Infante's posthumously published books, of the homoerotic ideal and the poetic transgression of Jesús Barquet, stories of Vicente Echerri on the struggle at Escambray and the novel "La travesía secreto" by Carlos Victoria, which he considers as "perhaps the most authentic and accomplished case in Cuban literature of the 20th century of what the German critics call" a bildungsroman . "
It also deals with the censorship of Castro, the mutilations of character of Cubans caused by more than half a century of dictatorship, Ediciones El Puente, the exodus of 1980, and the lorry. The time of Mariel magazine, which published eight issues in New York between 1983 and 1985, and whose board of directors belonged to García Ramos, with Reinaldo Arenas, Carlos Victoria, Luis de la Paz, Juan Abreu, Rene Cifuentes and Roberto Valero
Stresses, for its originality and daring, the test Children of Martí in the delusional epic . With regard to The Golden Age and l & Martí's aspiration to inculcate ethical principles and concepts to gifted children and a maturity greater than that corresponding to their age, Garcia Ramos emphasizes: "In this idealizing vision, which prefers to ignore the probable limitations of their virtual readers to the In advance, also reflects the trend of Martí to be neglected in other levels, such as social and economic, and therefore, the political, the objective limits of the country and its individuals ". García Ramos quotes Luis Ortega who said that Marti "… dreaming too much of Cuba, he gives him impossible tasks"
In these times of distortions, forgetfulness, liquidation, fraud and simulacra, books like An imprecise measure and authors like García Ramos, sincere and without fear of demons, become more and more necessary to the Cuban culture and nation.
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