He grew up in pinar del rio and began to work selling ice cream and newspapers when he was eleven years old. Typically, a reporter with an appointment to interview him in his centro habana apartment. Havana in the early 1990s was a decidedly rum city. Pedro juan used to be a reporter in havana, but as life in cuba and his own life begin to collapse around him, he gives up the farce of a daily job, and begins to train himself to take nothing seriously. Pedro juan gutierrez s dirty havana trilogy is a fascinating book. Like the lives of so many of his neighbors in the crumbling, onceelegant apartment houses that line havanas waterfront, pedro juans days and nights have been reduced by the socalled special times the harsh recession that followed the soviet unions collapse to the struggle of surviving the daily grit through the escapist pursuit of sex. Pedro juan gutierrez author of dirty havana trilogy.
He was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction. Quizas yo lo voy a leer aun mas veces porque no tiene comparacion. In many ways, this reminds me of nonfiction works by reinaldo arenas, only gutierrez has one big advantage over arenas. The havana he talks about is not the one described in travel brochures. At the authors insistence, the reporter has paid multiple visits to gutierrez s exhaustive website and has immersed himself in his prose. Pedro juan gutierrezs dirty havana trilogy is a fascinating book. Pedro juan gutierrez nacio en matanzas, cuba, en 1950. He was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction, technical designer, radio speaker, and journalist for 26 years. Go to the editions section to read or download ebooks. Pedro juan gutierrez is the author of dirty havana trilogy 3. Cuba, 1950 escritor cubano con una poderosa y original prosa. Sin temor hinca su bisturi afilado, escarba en las entranas, y lo revuelca todo, irrespetuosamente. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
Animal tropical pedro juan gutierrez soledad libertad. At the authors insistence, the reporter has paid multiple visits to gutierrezs exhaustive website and has immersed himself in his prose. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. Pedro juan gutierrez cuban novelist cuban literature. Sitio oficial del escritor cubano pedro juan gutierrez. Dirty havana trilogy pedro juan gutierrez paperback. Pedro juan gutierrez edita su ultima novela en cuba con dos. Dirty havana trilogy, tropical animal and the insatiable spider man all feature gutierrezs eponymous antihero.
Pedro juan gutierrez, 56 years old in havana, cuba on june 22nd, 2006 he is now the cuban writer more published ten years in the last, was born in the province of matanzas, cuba in october of 1998 the publishing anagram, of barcelona, published its dirty trilogy of havana the success of the critic and public was instantaneous after a stage of twentysix years like. Apr, 2001 the dirty havana trilogy pedro juan gutierrez, trans natasha wimmer 392pp, faber. This time of confused, lowrent capitalism is the backdrop for pedro juan gutierrez s gritty, powerful, and atmospheric novelinstories, dirty havana trilogy, translated from the original spanish version by natasha wimmer. Espanol leemos y debatimos en castellano organizador.
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