On Saturday 5 appeared on the blog of Simon Viola an extensive review of the book Heart of Stone of Antonio María Flórez and published the first in the DIGITAL TODAY. Reproduce the full text:
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From mother and Colombian father, Antonio María Flórez has alternated for educational and professional after periods of his life in Spain and Colombia, which has allowed him to see first hand the literary scene in both countries and has become a valuable bridge between them. In this circumstance, his books also have appeared in Colombia (The Square Circle, 1987, in slow motion, 1989; ZOO (love poemillas environmentally damaging), 1993) and Spain (the bar of the four roses, 1995, before returning 1996) .
Back in Colombia, Antonio Maria has published The City (2001), The art of fighting (prize Caldense Institute of Culture, 2002), Displaced Paradise (2003), and Dali, the art of scandal (2004) , an essay by a notable reception there. He recently appeared in the Regional Editor Transmutation (2010), an anthology of current Colombian literature that collects samples from various genres (poetry, essay, novel short stories).
Heart of Stone, who now publishes books Littera Villanovense editor, is a small collection of poems that belong to the same cycle Displaced Paradise (International Poetry Prize "Ciudad de Bogota 2003", published that same year and later in 2006, Editora Regional de Extremadura), a book that dealt with the effects of violence in Colombia.
As is known, the traditional migration from rural areas to the cities, common to all Latin America, has been intensified in Colombia through the action of large landowners, paramilitaries and guerrillas, forcing entire villages, accused of collaboration, to flight. More than one million displaced annually is required to give up their human wave environment of origin and destination unpredictable, as is the course of the confrontation, which makes it impossible to schedule in advance and foster care measures. Violence and its aftermath, with its extraordinary size and its extension in time, have become part of a "system effect" common to several generations of Colombian writers, a glue that does not naturally uniform answers, but imposes its undeniable presence. Treaty theater, novels, essays ... the issue has also entered in poetry, challenged, like other genres, an ethical commitment to this terrible state of affairs (a character from Octavio Escobar Giraldo associated with "a lot of resignation and despair and an endless orgy of blood").
Although both documents contain key performance poems related to one's personal biography, both books (significantly devoted to child), placed under the invocation of the Biblical story of the expulsion from Eden, chronicle the journey from certain dangers and threats hidden of those who leave "footprint / in the dust, / the wet grass / mud and" seeking the protection of "false gods of the city burned" with the biblical stigma of those who know "banished from paradise."
If there though, the protagonists of the flight were a couple of young refugees in the Heart of stone will be a father and son which provide, as stated in the initial appointment of Cormac McCarthy "in front of them a great devastation." And it is the presence of the child, determined on a linguistic behavior crucial and perplexing question in his candor ("What would you do if I die, father?") That entered this world of ash shining brightness of hope and gives possible sense to target the adult must take care of the "must carry fire."
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