By Reina María Rodríguez,Kristin Dykstra

ISBN-10: 0817358013

ISBN-13: 9780817358013

Published in Spanish as Otras cartas a Milena, Other Letters to Milena indicates Rodrí guez confronting urgent concerns on the flip of the twenty-first century. those contain a brand new post-Soviet global and the realities of diasporic life, that have a profound impression even on humans like Rodrí guez who've no longer migrated yet proceed to dwell and paintings of their domestic kingdom. The publication’ s name references Franz Kafka, whose Letters to Milena used to be released after his loss of life in 1952. This indications that Rodrí guez participates in her urban’ s lengthy cosmopolitan culture asserted by way of Cuban writers and students of Cuban literature. Rodrí guez’ s youngest daughter, featured so much prominently within the letters making up the gathering’ s centerpiece, “ a woman’ s Story,” used to be named after Milena Jesenská , the recipient of Kafka’ s letters.

 

With the poems supplied in a bilingual layout, the gathering should be of curiosity either to English readers mostly (this could be the first English translation of an entire Rodrí guez assortment now not excerpted from a bigger paintings) and to Spanish readers not able to procure the gathering in any shape, given the trouble of allotting Cuban literature open air that country.

 

As an creation to the publication, Dykstra has incorporated a severe statement. It clarifies some of the writer’ s references, corresponding to information concerning her family members historical past— goods Dykstra discovered in the course of long discussions with the writer approximately her paintings— and impacts approximately her offerings within the translation. 

Available at once from the collage of Alabama Press is a deluxe version that features a hand-crafted, limited-edition colour linocut print and letterpress-printed poem signed by way of either Rodrí guez and artist Alejandro Sainz. to buy a replica of this exact merchandise, decide on the "Other e-book" above.

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