"Out of Havana arrives one of the most significant Hispanic American writers . . . Calvert Casey, nourished by the Western literary tradition, yet, obstinately, almost obsessively, 'local.' . . . With memories of Havana as a colony and of slavery, of the brothels and black witchcraft and uninterrupted sensuality in an uninterrupted dialogue with the dead, Casey . . . began to write far from Cuba out of nostalgia. It led him to return to Cuba and to submerge himself anew in the old city known rock by rock, ghost by ghost, ensuring never to be separated from her again."--Italo Calvino, written in 1966, reprinted in Quimera no. 26 (Dec. 1982)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction / Ilan Stavans vii
A Note on the Text xxi
Translator's Note / John H. R. Polt xxiii
The Walk 1
In San Isidro 13
Homecoming 17
Potosí 33
My Aunt Leocadia, Love, and the Lower Paleolithic 39
The Sun 51
A Little Romance 62
The Visitors 73
Love: The River Almendares, Now Full-Grown, Is Twelve Million Years Old 90
Happiness 95
The Execution 104
The Master of Life and Death 118
Polonaise Brillante 163
Goodbye . . . and Thanks for Everything 167
In Partenza 177
On the Avenue 180
Piazza Margana 187
