There are many writers currently creating canon-defying literature inside Cuba. With this in mind, the online magazine SampsoniaWay.org asked its Havana-based Cuban columnist and correspondent Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo to compile a collection of short stories from writers who are creating new trends in Cuban Literature. For this anthology, Pardo Lazo decided to focus on writers of Generación Año Cero (Generation Year Zero), a movement of writers who began publishing in 2000. The selected writers included in the anthology are: Jorge Alberto Aguiar Díaz, Lien Carrazana Lau, Gleyvis Coro Montanet, Ahmel Echevarría Peré, Michel Encinosa Fú, Jhortensia Espineta Osuna, Carlos Esquivel, Abel Fernández-Larrea, Raúl Flores, Jorge Enrique Lage, Polina Martínez Shviétsova, Lizabel Mónica, Osdany Morales, Erick Mota, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, and Lia Villares. "Cubans no longer speak the same language. The rhetoric of monolithic thought has contaminated words, which do not have the same meaning for the elite as they do on the streets. Today, the alternative cultural scene stands against such manipulation and against all nationalistic fictions on the island. In Generation Zero, sarcasm, deterritorialization, transvestism, fragmentation, colloquialism, hybridization, adventure and imagination are redesigning Cuban identity, recovering their power of subversion and resignifying Utopia." —Paulo Antonio Paranaguá, Le Monde. (France) "This compilation of short stories might well say more about Cuba’s reality than most news reports. Some of the island’s best emerging writers reach outside Cuba through their work —even as we look in— sometimes with depth, sometimes with irreverence, but always with great punch." —Juan O. Tamayo, El Nuevo Herald (USA) "Although some may believe it’s not true, freedom of expression is never completely undermined. This has been demonstrated by this brilliant group of Cuban authors: with their stories they prove that the days of the Communist Inquisition on the island are about to end." —José María Ballester Esquivias, La Gaceta Intereconomía (Spain)

Generation Zero: An Anthology of New Cuban Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Lage, Jorge Enrique

Morales, Osdany

Sampsonia Way Magazine

Fernández-Larrea, Abel

Flores, Raúl

Martínez Shviétsova, Polina

Mónica, Lizabel

Mota, Erick

Pardo Lazo, Orlando Luis

Villares, Lia

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Following in the steps of the skillful story telling traditions of Scheherazade and Borges, Osdany Morales leads the reader along a meandering path of tales connected through the narrator's expedition to visit the Seven Libraries of the World. The underlying account of his travels fades to the background as the reader is enticed into each side story, later returning to the surface to maintain the links as he and his stories traverse diverse geographic locations and centuries. Despite the unifying factor, each of the seven stories is a different style (fantasy, metafiction, suspense, chronicle, etc.) As a writer himself, the narrator's journey takes on additional significance as he is invited into each library under the condition that he leave one of his works to add to the collection. Throughout the stories Morales scatters references to writers, films, philosophies, history, geography, and more.

The Last Librarian (Cuban Literature)

Literary

Dalkey Archive Press

Osdany Morales (Nueva Paz, 1981) es autor de los libros de ficción Minuciosas puertas estrechas (Premio David 2006), Papyrus (Premio Alejo Carpentier 2012) y Antes de los aviones (2013). Ganador del Premio Internacional de Cuento Casa de Teatro 2008, sus relatos han aparecido en antologías de la nueva narrativa cubana y en revistas como El Cuentero, Quimera, Buensalvaje, el perro y Qué Pasa. Actualmente prepara su doctorado en la Universidad de Nueva York. El pasado es un pueblo solitario es su primer volumen de poesía.

El pasado es un pueblo solitario

Poetry

Bokeh

Osdany Morales (Nueva Paz, 1981) es autor de los libros de ficci n Minuciosas puertas estrechas (2007) y Papyrus (2012), y del volumen de poes a El pasado es un pueblo solitario (2015), tambi n en Bokeh.

Zozobra

Lengua materna

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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