I am a Cuban writer: this is my cross. Every being on earth carries a personal and un-transferable cross, with the same share of love and agony, since the time God or the Big Bang made us.<\/p>\n
I do not inhabit Cuba: Cuba inhabits me.<\/p>\n
And I love my island with the same rage that makes me suffer. I love her diversity and I suffer from her blindness. I love Benny Mor\u00e9 and Celia Cruz, Fernando Ortiz and Moreno Fraginals, Lezama Lima and Eugenio Florit, Carpentier and Cabrera Infante, Enrique Arredondo and Guillermo \u00c1lvarez Gu\u00e9dez; Wifredo Lam and Cundo Berm\u00fadez and I suffer from the absurd reasoning that tries to negate who they are: the heritage of all Cubans, whatever their creed, affiliation, prejudice or extremism.<\/p>\n
It is from that Cuba I write. Searching to free my words from the confinement imposed on them by what Virgilio Pi\u00f1era called that “cursed circumstance of water all around.” Because I own a intimate country, non-transferable, that any situation or power can take me away: a Cuba that travels with me everywhere, free, seductive, arrogant and rebellious.<\/p>\n
My characters gravitate over that Cuba like ghosts. Like Cuba, they also inhabit, seduce and enslave me; they dictate the stories that other insane persons enjoy or endure in my books.<\/p>\n
In a world without dialogue, believing in freedom of speech is for the insane. I confess that I am stubbornly insane.<\/p>\n
The freedom of the insane is one of the most beautiful things that still exists in the world today. Translating this freedom into my stories, my characters, is a dream that constantly wins me over.<\/p>\n
I think this planet of ours lacks a little of that beautiful and free insanity.<\/p>\n
This is why I write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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