CI.- On May 8, the Fogata Editorial will present at the International Book Fair
According to the back cover text: “In 1973, Roque Dalton was in Cuba receiving training to join the Salvadoran guerrillas. He took advantage of the isolation time imposed by the clandestine life to finish correcting the poems he grouped under the title“ Love I fall more badly than spring ”, which he left prepared to be published when the occasion came.
Until now, that occasion had been elusive. It is the first time that this poems is printed as an independent book, as the author conceived.
“Putting the focus on this unpublished poems allows us to approach his work in a rare way, to reveal the way Roque Dalton integrated, in his poetry, the revolutionary commitment and love,” explained the Editorial La Fogata.
International collective Articulation
The careful edition had the authorization of the Dalton family and is part of an international articulation that includes its simultaneous publication in Colombia (the fire), Mexico (editorial dogma) and Venezuela (Nila Editions).
Likewise, the poems is accompanied by works by first level illustrators and illustrators. The cover art, the diagramming and the illustrations were in charge of the Utopix graphic collective, internationally recognized by the quality of their designs and editorial work.
This novelty coincides with the commemoration of the 50 years of the murder of the poet, which occurred on May 10, 1975, and the 90th anniversary of his birth, on May 14, 1935. Both dates provide the optimal occasion for the dissemination and enjoyment of his work.
The book will be officially presented at the International Book Fair in Bogotá on May 8, an occasion that will begin the “Roque Dalton Conference.”
Other presentations
Other presentations will take place at the National Pedagogical University, on May 22, and at the University of Valle, on the 29th of the same month. The schedule will continue in June in other cities and universities in Colombia.
The presentation at the Filbo and the Roque Dalton Days will be attended by the Argentine Pablo Solana, editor and researcher of the life and work of the poet, author of the introductory study that accompanies and gives context to the poems.
Who was Roque Dalton?
He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, on May 14, 1935. He died killed on May 10, 1975 in Quezaltepeque of the same country.
He was a poet, narrator, essayist, journalist and, above all, a committed revolutionary militant.
Few writers have definitively marked the historical, political and literary future in the countries of our America as Dalton. Author of already classic books of our poetry as the turn of the offended (1962) and Taberna and other places (1969). His poor poet that was me is also highlighted … (1975).
Likewise, the experimentation was no stranger to his work and this is demonstrated by his book The prohibited stories of Pulgarcito (1974), which fuses styles such as chronicle, historical story, poetic prose and free verse, a volume that would advance to what we currently know as hybrid literature.
Roque Dalton Revolutionary
Roque Dalton was a revolutionary both in the political and literary aspect. He inspired prominent works of Latin American literature and was an insurgent committed that was involved in the armed struggle, after integrating into the insurgent group of the revolutionary army of the people in 1973, after receiving military training in Cuba, the main driver of the revolutionary struggle in the world.
Despite being persecuted by the Salvadoran military, the extreme right and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, Dalton died after being the victim of an internal purge that occurred inside the insurgent group the ERP.
A DALTON IN THE MEMORY
Some time later it was shown that Roque Dalton was innocent of the positions for which he was accused, the poet and revolutionary died at the hands of his own companions.
Revolutionaries like Eduardo Sancho and Lil Milagro Ramírez (who was also his sentimental partner) tried to convince him to flee to save his life, but Dalton refused, because he trusted his teammates, who in the end ordered his murder because this insurgent group suffered a bloody internal division that produced a purge inside, in which Roque Dalton revolutionary and his own disabilities to solve their own differences.
Editorial La Fogata said: “With the present title:” Love I fall more badly than spring love. “We celebrate an eminently sedicious work, which continues to cause imagination, the variants around the topic of love and the search for social justice.”
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