Orisha

Orisha

Carlos Rubio Albet

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Editorial:
Xlibris
Año de edición:
2007
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781425760007
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Arraigada en el folklore afrocubano tan bien captado por Fernando Ortiz, Lydia Cabrera y Alejo Carpentier, Orisha dibuja una elipse que magistralmente enlaza el ámbito primigenio de la isla con el contemporáneo. Desde el punto de vista anecdótico, toda esta nueva novela de Rubio traza el desenlace del vaticinio de un babalao lucumí que anuncia con detalles el nacimiento y futuro de Ignacio Benítez, alias Agua Dulce. Mulato de ojos azules, Ignacio es el elegido sucesor del brujo lucumí y el encargado de ratificar la veracidad del pronóstico de los caracoles courís sobre su propio destino. Desplazándose desde la Cuba originaria hasta la revolución fidelista de 1959 y el subsiguiente éxodo a tierras floridanas, Orisha describe y recoge sensualmente la riqueza del paisaje guajiro, el sabor de su tierra tostada y suculenta, el mundo alucinante y fogoso de la zafra, la decadente vida nocturna de la capital cubana y el Miami comercializado de la emigración. El autor se regocija en la confección de barrocas descripciones en las que se injertan a menudo breves e insólitos símiles que enriquecen la narración con sensuales y briosas imágenes comparativas. Gran parte de la novela se regodea en un extenso retozo intertextual con personajes de otras novelas de Rubio así como de otros provenientes de textos de Severo Sarduy y Lezama Lima, sin excluir técnicas y descripciones mágicas o fantásticas muy propias del maestro del Realismo Mágico, Gabriel García Márquez. Orisha es, en su totalidad, un lúdico experimento artístico que mantiene el interés del lector de principio a fin al mismo tiempo que lo reta a explorar los diversos vínculos que la unen a la polifacética cultura cubana.

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