The weekend, the journalist and writer from Córdoba Pedro Solans presented in Posadas, within the framework of the Book Fair that was held on the fourth section of the waterfront, his latest book: “Dark and without lights”, from the Spanish publishing house Avant.
It is a work of a social nature, which the publishing house places in the territory of ‘black poetry’where Solans explores gender inequalities, providing a perspective that, judging by texts that have transcended the release, takes reading to extreme situations, which become invisible due to their everyday nature..
“In the darkness of the street/ the war,/ and in the doorway of a church/ a sleeping girl,/ lost childhood. // The goals left traces,/ scars of barbarism./ Robbed of beauty,/ she strives to live.// In her brown eyes is reflected/ the landscape of a/ merciless world,/ where horror grows (….. ),” reads one of the poems.
“The quote is enough to know what it is about, what this poetry speaks about that sinks its words in the mud of the most crude and painful reality that – especially but not exclusively – is experienced today in this Third World, increasingly larger. and needy, who invented and feeds power and wealth concentrated in a few hands,” says the poet from Córdoba. Aldo Parfeniukabout this latest collection of poems by Solans.
“From testimony to testimony, the poetry of Pedro Solans advances, taking care not only of those who have no voice, but of what few take care of: victims of abuse, massacred innocents, stigmatized transsexuals and/or artists discriminated against by social conventions and climates of the time. who recognize them as strange or dangerous”Parfeniuk writes.
The presentation of “Oscuro y sin Luceros” was held in the Multicultural Space and was attended by the Minister of Culture, Joselo Schuap, writers and friends of the author, who came from various parts of the province, especially Monte Carlo, which is where his life story merges, definitively, with the “red earth” that Ramón Ayala spoke of, with whom he cultivated a friendship of years and of whom he treasures multiple anecdotes.
The Menu
“I came to look for work in the ’90s,” the author summarizes to La Voz de Misiones, about his connection with the province.
The red earth appears strongly in his work. In 2016, she premiered a documentary filmed in Caraguatay, with Ramon Ayala and Joselo Schuapcentered on the figure of the legendary Argentine Cuban guerrilla, Ernesto Che Guevarawho lived his early years in that portion of Misiones, belonging to the Department of Monte Carlo.
“In Che’s thought, the formation of the new, disalienated man constitutes the fundamental objective of his moral ideology.”Solans tells LVM.
The writer from Córdoba maintains that Che Guevara’s “moral ideology” was nourished by those first sensations that “Ernesto mitaí” (“child”, in Guaraní), harvested in that portion of the missionary jungle that he lived with his parents.
“The family failed here as herbal producers, and that failure and the stories of the hardships that the menus went through, both in Misiones and in Paraguay, were always in the family after-dinner meals in the following years of Che’s life.”says Solans.
“It is a theme that is beautifully poeticized by Ramón Ayala in his poem ‘El mensú’, set to music in 1955, the year of the beginning of the Cuban revolution that had Ernesto Guevara as its protagonist and from which he emerged as Che,” he points out. .
Solans maintains that the thought and work of the famous guerrilla is permeated by the “deep poetics” of the creator of Gualambaoand uses an anecdote told by Ramón Ayala himself, which is not the first time he has told it.
“On May 25, 1962, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples prepared a fraternity event with an Argentine delegation that had arrived in Havana, in which was Ramón Ayala, along with artists, journalists, writers and political activists. ”says Solans.
“That night, when everyone had already retired to sleep, at three in the morning, a convoy of soldiers arrived at the hotel and summoned the entire entourage to a meeting with Che,” he continued.
“They made them go into a small, austere room, where there was a table, two chairs and a mate team,” Solans describes and shoots: “In a moment, a door opened and the commander entered, in his Sierra uniform. Teacher, and after a brief exchange of words and a handshake with each one, Che stops and asks: ‘Who is Ramón Ayala?'”
The writer from Córdoba says that the missionary musician identified himself as “fearful,” and that Che “approached him with a face of admiration, shook his hand, and told him that in the kitchens in the Sierra Maestra, when the revolutionary war was raging, He sang ‘El Mensú’ to his combatants, while telling them about the life, exploitation and outrage that those who worked in the herb fields went through, and he made them see how those who had to work for the infusion, symbol of their culture, suffered. of the land without evil, everything that he had drank in his childhood in Caraguatay.
“In ‘El Mensú’, Ramón Ayala exposes elements that would later be used by Che Guevara in his writings, from 1959 until his assassination in 1967.”, he points out.
Caraguatay
Solans, On Friday, he participated in the inauguration of the works to enhance the Ernesto Guevara House Museumlocated in the “Solar del Che” Natural and Cultural Reserve, in Caraguatay, chaired by the governor Hugo Passalacqua.
The House Museum is a cultural and historical space that preserves part of the childhood of someone who would become a universal figure.
Located in the “Solar del Che” Natural and Cultural Reserve, a protected area of 18 hectaresoffers visitors the opportunity to walk three trails, visit the museum on the property and learn about the early years of the life of Ernesto Guevara.
In the place, You can see the remains of the Guevara housean ingenious water supply system and a viewpoint with views of the Paraná River, Caraguatay Island and the Paraguayan coast, opposite.
Over there, Ernesto Guevara Lynch and his wife, Celia De la SernaChe’s parents, They settled in Misiones in 1927coming from San Isidro, Buenos Aires, tempted by the productive potential of the region.
He area was expropriated by the provincial government, under a law of the Provincial Legislature, in 1997and some time later it was converted into a nature reserve.
