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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796479303321

Autore

Rodríguez Reina María <1952->

Titolo

Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena [[electronic resource] /] / Reina Maria Rodriguez ; translated by Kristin Dykstra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8173-8803-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RodríguezReina María <1952->

DykstraKristin

Disciplina

861.64

861/.64

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Locating Milena; A Note on the Text; Duda / Doubt; Paso de nubes / Passage of Clouds; El pulpo / The Octopus; El mascarón / The Figurehead; El fotógrafo / The Photographer; El cuento de la niña / The Girl's Story; Una casa de Ánimas / A House on Ánimas; Diotima / Diotima; La voz del Niágara / The Voice of the Niagara; Alfiles / Bishops; El diablo / The Devil; La zanja / The Grave; Una muchacha llevó las primeras flores /A Young Woman Brought the First Flowers; Un cementerio para ella / A Cemetery for Her

Como Tolstoi narra en Resurrección /As Tolstoy Recounts in Resurrection

Sommario/riassunto

Published in Spanish as Otras cartas a Milena, Other Letters to Milena shows Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty-first century. These involve a new post-Soviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on people like Rodríguez who have not migrated but continue to live and work in their home nation. The book's title references Franz Kafka, whose Letters to Milena was published after his death in 1952, signals that Rodríguez participates in her city's long cosmopolitan tradition asserted by Cuban writers and scholars of Cuban l