Pedro Juan Gutiérrez - The Insatiable Spiderman
Just finished reading 'The Insatiable Spiderman' by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, a collection of short stories by the Cuban author who wrote 'Dirty Havana Trilogy' in 2001. Having been excited to see another book written by him, I was disappointed as the stories seem a bit monotonous, lacking the power and intensity of his previous novels published in English (Dirty Havana Trilogy and Tropical Animal ). Maybe he is loosing his juice !
Dirty Havana Trilogy was by far the best, a powerful book, like a sharp scalpel slicing open the ripe underbelly of Cuba, spilling out the poverty, hardship, degradation and squalor that most Cubans endure in their lives there.... an insightful, shit-smeared, somewhat Milleresque, torrid, sexually charged portrait of life that most tourists who go to Havana are totally unaware of. An excerpt can be read here.
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez has written several other books and some poetry, but unfortunately not published in English. I still look forward to reading more from him.
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posted by Rundaas at 2:08 am
3 Comments:
Sounds like a fascinating writer. Thanks for the fine post. I just used some leftover Xmas moolah to order his book from my favorite online bookseller...didn't really need something else to add to my "to-be-read" pile but what're gonna do? :-)
Happy Christmas.
Merry X'mas to you.
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