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Havana (PL) Sixty years of popular flight from La Paloma, book appeared just two days before the triumph of the Revolution, Nicolás Guillén brandishes his banner of a great Cuban poet, a glory that has emerged with greater force since Sóngoro cosongo since 1931.
Although his takeoff is usually placed in the book Motives of Son, which was published in 1930, it seems more appropriate to fix it in Sóngoro cosongo – which included the work shown in the previous one – for the concert of recognitions that He acquired, despite the reluctance in the Cuban media.
Much has been published about this book, but it will still be necessary to extol the successful judgments emitted by the universal Miguel de Unamuno, through his memorable epistle, among other important intellectuals of universal dimension.
Thus, the great Salamanca expressed to the Cubans on June 8, 1932: Some time ago, my lord and companion, from whom I received and read – just received – his cosongo Sóngoro, whom I I suggested writing to him. Then I read it again – I read it to my friends – and I heard about you from García Lorca. I do not have to ponder the deep impression that your book has given me.
Guillen (July 10, 1902-16 July 1989) will recognize that Unamuno's letter greatly contributed to neutralizing the minds of those who were hostile to the meaning of his book. even without having any appreciable control over what the poet has reflected in depth.
By separating the Motives and Sóngoro cosongo, his most recent title, he stated that it was a more complete book, in which the initial accents emerged, treated with a greater lyrical ambition, but without leaving the hand of Ariadne's thread of the popular.
According to him, the occasion that revealed the brutal shock of his body with life occurred, however, three years later, in 1934, with the appearance of West Indies, Ltd., which brutally expresses the conflict between the poet and the environment in which he subsequently worked and lived.
The time between the two works marks a path in which he tends and deepens a denunciation which rises towards his greatest gradation in the defense of social justice, an objective in which he will not stop and before shown in his ingenious journalism, since his debut in the Camaguey media.
The case now reaches another dimension due to the fact that the Spanish newspaper ABC published on June 3 the relationship of the 100 best books of universal literature, in the opinion of fifty writers, critics and personalities of the world of culture, which included among the selected works the Sóngoro cosongo de Guillén
It seems necessary to extend, on the 116th birthday of the poet, on whom were the other recognized authors, the list that initiates Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes; The Odyssey continues, second; Iliad, third, both of Homer; and continues in fourth place with Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy.
There were several authors with more than one recognized title, such as William Shakespeare with Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Tempest; Leo Tolstoy with Anna Karenina and War and Peace; Franz Kafka with The Process and The Metamorphosis; Fyodor Dostoevsky with the Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Demons and Idiot; and Charles Dickens with Great Expectations and The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Among Latin Americans, nothing else appears like Gabriel García Márquez with One hundred years of loneliness and love at the time of cholera, although they also appear, with a job each, Jorge Luis Borges with Ficciones, Juan Rulfo with Pedro Páramo, and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento with Facundo or civilization and barbarism in the Argentine pampas.
It is not forgotten in the report to the Bible; In search of lost time, by Marcel Proust; The Aeneid, by Virgil; Essais, by Michel de Montaigne; Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert; Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontà ©; Oedipus Rex, Sophocles; Arab nights, Anonymous; Life is a dream, by Calderón de la Barca; and Ulysses, by James Joyce.
About the National Poet of Cuba, it should not be ignored that with the popular escape pigeon, of compromised peace, Guillen bequeathed sixty years ago a precise allegory on his conception of the l & # 39; harmony with justice and equality, through this bird which is a symbol.
The biblical fact that a dove came back at the time of the afternoon, bringing an olive leaf in its beak, so that Noah understood that the waters had been removed the Earth maintains an unbridled badogy in which Guillen's hope overcomes the expectation, a fact demonstrated a few years later with his book Tengo.
As a chronicler of hope, he focuses his vision on a future determined by the triumphant revolution. January 1, 1959, whose conquest of popular rights proclaims, for having been cruelly repressed before.
This is his book that shows the anti-imperialism that had initiated its so full apa in the West Indies, Ltd., as an attitude that remained thereafter in Guillén's successive poems, without giving way and constantly.
* Editor of Prensa Latina.
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