La novela de mi vida

Una evocaci n viv sima del Romanticismo en el Caribe de la poca colonial, pero por encima de todo una lectura de la historia de Cuba, un viaje al origen de su conciencia nacional a trav s de la vida de su primer gran poeta.

Tras dieciocho a os en el exilio, Fernando Terry decide volver por un mes a La Habana, atra do por la posibilidad de dar al fin con la autobiograf a desaparecida del poeta Jos Mar a Heredia, al que dedic su tesis doctoral. De paso, aclarar de una vez las sospechas, que han ido alimentando su rencor, de qui n lo denunci y provoc la expulsi n de su puesto en la universidad.

A la historia de ese reencuentro y a la busca del codiciado manuscrito, titulado precisamente La novela de mi vida, se suman alternativamente dos planos temporales m s: el de la vida de Heredia a comienzos del siglo XIX, en los a os de la Colonia, y el de los ltimos d as de su hijo Jos de Jes s de Heredia, mas n, a principios del XX. La novela de mi vida, una viv sima evocaci n del Romanticismo en El Caribe, constituye un viaje al origen de la conciencia nacional de Cuba a trav s de la vida de su primer gran poeta: Jos Mar a Heredia.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A very vivid evocation of Romanticism in the Caribbean of the colonial era, but above all a reading of the history of Cuba, a journey to the origin of its national consciousness through the life of its first great poet.

After eighteen years in exile, Fernando Terry decided to return to Havana for a month, attracted by the possibility of finally finding the disappeared autobiography of the poet Jos Mar a Heredia, to whom he dedicated his doctoral thesis. In passing, he will clarify once and for all the suspicions, which have been fueling his resentment, of who denounced him and caused the expulsion from his position at the university.

To the story of this reunion and the search for the coveted manuscript, entitled precisely La novela de mi vida (The Novel of My Life), two more temporal planes are added alternately: that of Heredia's life at the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the years of the Colony, and that of the last days of his son Jos de Jes s de Heredia. Freemason, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The novel of my life, a vivid evocation of Romanticism in the Caribbean, is a journey to the origin of Cuba's national consciousness through the life of its first great poet: Jos Mar a Heredia.