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Virgilio
PIÑERA
Cárdenas, 1912 - Cárdenas, 1979
Genre: Classics , Poetry , Narrative , Essays , Theatre
Playwright, poet, narrator, essayist and translator. Contributor of important publications of our literary history: Silver Spur, Origins, Cyclone and Monday of Revolution. Known as the major playwright in the country, he printed great originality to the Cuban theater since his first piece Electra Garrigó. Author, among others, of the books: The furies (poetry, 1941), The whole life (poetry, 1968), A colossal joke (poetry, 1988), The island by weight (poetic work, 1998/2011), Cold Tales (1956), Sneers for clerks (story, 1987/1990/1995), Full stories (1998/2004/2011), René`s flesh (novel, 1985/1995/2011), Small maneuvers (novel, 1963/2011), Pressures and diamonds (1967/2011) and Full theater (1960/2002/2006). In 1987 obtained the Casa de las Américas award for his play Two old panics.
On the verge of his twenty years, René is sent by his father to a peculiar school where, instead of growing the spirit, he is trained in the punishment of the flesh. The brutal learning given there, close to the ordeal, will culminate with a grotesque initiation rite from which René escapes. Since this moment, in a society who engine is meat, both as a source of pleasure and pain, René’s life becomes a constant flight, either from the legacy of his father and the followers of «martyrdom», or the sensuality of Mrs. Pérez and her strange friends, Powlavski y Nieburg.
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