Leonardo Padura essayist: life and literature

Authors

  • Vicente Cervera Salinas Universidad de Murcia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12795/PH.2016.i30.18

Keywords:

Padura, Essay, Cuban Literature, Sociology of Literature, Testimony

Abstract

This article aims to deal with a dimension of Leonardo Padura’s work which
is not frequently attended to by scholarly research: his essays. They are indeed
instrumental in order to get access to both the human and the literary personality of the author, which allows us to recognize the author as a reflective and freely shaped agent. Padura’s essayistic work is studied on three complementary fronts: essays of a socio-political nature, essays where he puts forward a canon for Cuban literature, and essays from which Padura approaches reality not only from his own subjective autobiographical perspective but also from testimonial and analytical stances.

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Published

2016-12-22

How to Cite

Cervera Salinas, V. (2016). Leonardo Padura essayist: life and literature. Philologia Hispalensis, 30(2), 29–49. https://doi.org/10.12795/PH.2016.i30.18

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 2 (2016): Literary studies

Section

Monographic Section

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Received 2017-01-16
Accepted 2017-06-08
Published 2016-12-22
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