Virgilio Pinera is one of the most important Cuban writers. Although he is the author of a large collection of poems, short stories, novels, plays, and essays, his works are barely known in Latin America During the 1940's, when the Caribbean writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Jose Lezama Lima, and Luis Pales Matos were elaborating the aesthetics of magic realism, the neo-baroque and negritude, Pinera's tendency was opposite to that of the aforementioned writers Some of Pinera's books have as titles Cuentos frios (Cold Stories), Aire frio (Cold Air), and Helada zona (Frozen Zone). For Pinera coldness, as a poetic principle that governs not only his narrative but also his poetry and plays, consists of the 'exposition of the pure facts'. This 'exposition of the pure facts' reveals Pinera's obsessive concern on style Coldness, in Pinera's writing, is a privileged image about the society and the epoch where he lives. At times, coldness refers to masochism. Coldness and cruelty function as the denial of sensuality, as a condition for masochistic pleasure. Coldness is also an image about culture and its discontents in postmodern society / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_25671 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Contributors | Valerio, Fernando (Author), Balderston, Daniel (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | Spanish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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