2023-06-22 14:36:47
The impact caused on him by the novel Las últimas vacas van a morir, by the Matanzas narrator and playwright Ulises Rodríguez Febles, led the journalist Reinier Del Pino Cejas to write the Time.news Confessions of a literary Frankenstein, with which he has just obtained the maximum prize of the VI edition of the National Contest Caridad Pineda in memoriam.
According to Del Pino Cejas, the work and characters of Rodríguez Febles are connected with his own life in country estates, with that of his maternal grandfather Goyo, a kind of alter ego of Francisco de la Cal, a character in the novel by the author from Matanzas , and with many of the realities of the text of the novel, which look with absolute sincerity at the hard problems of these times in Cuba.
“I selected the novel Las últimas vacas van a morir, because of the links that the atmosphere of that book has with my reality of being the son of a sugar batey in Caimito, a couple of kilometers from a livestock community. Fragments of the novel seemed like pieces of my life and because of those “pieces” I titled my review that way and for that reason I competed under the pseudonym Francisco de la Cal”, commented the award-winning writer.
From the diary of Anne Frank to Páginas del corazón, by Miguel Eduardo Hernández, and How to be a real man, by Pedro Arturo Menéndez, occupied positions two and three in this literary contest, while the mentions fell on It happened to me like Don Quixote , by Enma Maray Martínez, A book and its guardian, by José Antonio García, With (certain) baroque, by Miguel Terry Valdespino, and Pippa and I, by Eurídice Legrá Mora.
The award to the new author was Thanks to the cow, by Ariadna Pérez, and in the international chapter of The Book that marked my life, the prize went to Cuentos colimotes by Gregorio Torres Quintero, by the Mexican Emilio Gerzaín.
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