Lo cubano en Paradiso release_ldlu52lekjasdb7c3axp5wlaju

by Roberto González Echevarría

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El tema principal de Paradiso es la identidad cubana, asunto que obsedió a José Lezama Lima y a los integrantes del grupo Orígenes. En Paradiso Lezama da una síntesis de lo cubano que se expresa mediante la combinación de los dos productos principales de la isla, el tabaco y el azúcar, que es paralela a la que ofrece Fernando Ortiz en su conocido ensayo Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar. El padre y la madre del protagonista José Cemí provienen de familias azucarera y tabacalera respectivamente, y cada uno manifiesta características asociadas con esos productos: el azúcar poder y energía, el tabaco finura y arte. El Coronel es energético, decidido, mientras que Eloisa, la madre, es fina, con inclinaciones artísticas. Cemí encarnará ambas tendencias. De esa manera Paradiso no sólo propone una teoría sobre lo cubano sino que la encarna. ABSTRACT The main theme of Paradiso is Cuban identity, a topic that obsessed José Lezama Lima and members of the Orígenes group. In Paradiso Lezama provides a synthesis of Cubanness expressed through the combination of the islands two principal products, sugar and tobacco that parallels the one proposed by Fernando Ortiz in his well-known essay Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. The protagonist's father and mother come from sugar and tobacco producing family respectively, and each displays features associated with those substances: sugar means power and energy, while tobacco refinement and artistic inclinations. The Colonel is energetic, willful, while Eloisa, the mother, is refined and artistic. Cemí will incarnate both tendencies. In that way, Paradiso does not just propose a theory about Cubanness, but dramatizes it.
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