The baroque Cuba of Thierry Clermont
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
Journalist and writer, Thierry Clermont is the author of several books including a collection of poetry Jubilate! poems for soprano (2010) and stories. After San Michele (2014), a literary immersion in Venice, he has just published Barroco bordello, an erudite and enthusiastic stroll in Havana.
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"Leaving in the footsteps of Robert Desnos and his stay in Cuba in 1928, the narrator walks the streets of Havana, discovers the many churches and bars, strolls around the Malecón to capture the" marvelous reality "in which he will end up During his stays, he meets colorful characters, including a former guerrilla, musicians, extravagant anonymous people dreaming of departures, a rich New Yorker who awaits the fall of castrism, a mysterious nurse, a priest of la santería ... Memories go back: a bewitching lover, a boastful taxi driver, poets and filmmakers, as well as illustrious figures Sartre and Beauvoir ignited by the revolution, Alejo Carpentier, Lezama Lima, the boxer Kid Chocolate, Paul Morand, the racing driver Fangio (kidnapped by the barbudos), Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, García Lorca and some surprise guests, such as the young Leonard Cohen or Anaïs Nin. " (Presentation of Editions du Seuil)
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