Saturday, November 30, 2013

LAS JUDERIAS / NOVEL BY CARLOS LOPEZ DZUR

LAS JUDERIAS / NOVEL BY CARLOS LOPEZ DZUR

A political and pyschological novel: LAS JUDERIAS








A political and pyschological novel: 


LAS JUDERIAS


A Jewish boy ( Karl ben Abram) , born in Havana , examines the estrangement from her father and why his mother (Sara ) decided out of Cuba, at a time when the fledgling Revolution divides the family is just beginning to know . As the boy grow he collects information material and enriching memories which includes genealogies of their ancestors, even in that mix with Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Zionist revolutionaries and mercenaries. In the end, by applying a dosis of understanding and reconciling moods, this teenage boy looked for his father's presence, but his effort failed when he discovered him  as a CIA agent

The alienation is complete because, despite its successful activity as a doctoral researcher and spy for the U.S., Dr. Abram is cheating, womanizing , and emotionally unhappy, tortured by guilt and prejudices, which are projected against his wife and son, his older brother and relatives .

In Lopez Dzur's novel  two visions are contrasted. One is the Zionist territorialism and its prodominialism supported by the Castro agent and a second one: Sara's vision which is much more spiritual,  balanced by a leftist social conscience. For reasons beyond their control, she decides to leave Cuba, with his son, without claiming complicity with counterrevolutionary activities.

CARLOS LOPEZ DZUR / THE AUTHOR

Born in San Sebastián del Pepino, Puerto Rico, Carlos López Dzur worked as a cultural journalist, a teacher, a government clerk and a book translator in Southern California. He is also a poet, historian and novelist. His poems, short-stories and articles  has been published in a wide variety of media, including his own blogs.  A humanist, he was a part of the transition between 60s  Literary Generation and Setentistas,incorporating both views in his works. He consider himself one among the wild children of Whitman, the Beat movement and authors such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, anti-war poets like Adrienne Rich and Gary Snyder and he admire Puerto Rican authors like Nilita Vientós Gastón, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Joserramón Meléndes, Yvan Silén and others.

López Dzur is concerned with politics, peace and war, Eastern mysticism, Tantra and sexuality throughout his early youth. At the end of 2013, López published the three volumens of  the serie «Tantralia». 

On December 2013, his first novel on Caribbean Jewish community came out with the title Las Juderías [Palibrio, Indiana], 356 ps.

Some of Lopez Dzur's poetry has been set to music by an a Belarusian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works Galina Gorelova (Halina Harelava) as part of the Series Song-Cycle on Latin-American Poetry (texts by César Vallejo, Carlos López Dzur), baritone, piano, in 1986. Ms. Gorelova co-founded with Sergey Beltiukov, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Dmitry Lybin, Yevgeny Poplavsky (Yauhen Paplauski), and other composers the Belarusian Society for Contemporary Music in Minsk in 1990.

López Dzur  is one of the participating poets included in «[Per]versiones desde el paraíso: Poesía puertorriqueña de entresiglos» [ed. Aullido: Revista de Poesía [2005], ed. Umberto Stabile and Ana María Fuster Lavín

He is Poetas del Mundo member: 
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PUBLISHED WORKS:

«Sarnas de la ira parda», cuentos [QeAser, ed. Joserramón Meléndes, 1980]
«El hombre extendido» [awarded by«Chicano Literary Contest», de la Universidad de California, Irvine, 1986]
«Las máscaras del tabú», novel [Denver, 2001], 306 ps.
«Simposio de tlacuilos', novel [ENE, Octubre 2000], 229 ps.
«Comevacas y tiznaos: Las Partidas Sediciosas en el Pepino de 1898», monographical essay [Outskirst Press, Colorado, 2005], 228 ps.
«El corazón del monstruo», short-stories[Outskirst Press, Colorado, 2006], 350 ps.
«El ladrón bajo el abrigo», poetry [Casa de los Poetas, San Juan, 2013]
«Epica de San Sebastián del Pepino» [KoolTourActiva, San Juan, 2013], 194 ps.
«Las juderías», novel [Palibrio Editors, 2014], 346 ps.
«Las hienas», novel [Lord Byron Editor, Madrid, 2014]

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SINOPSIS

Un niño judío (Karl ben Abram), nacido en La Habana, examina el distanciamiento de su padre y el por qué su madre (Sara) decide sacarlo de Cuba, en momentos en que la Revolución en ciernes divide a la familia que apenas comienza a conocer. Según crece va recaudando un material informativo y memorante que incluye genealogías de sus ancestros, mismo en el que se mezclan askenazis con sefarditas, revolucionarios con sionistas y agentes mercenarios. Al final, la comprensión reconciliadora que el niño y adolescente buscara con su padre fracasa al descubrirlo como un agente de la CIA.

El distanciamiento es total porque, pese a su actividad exitosa, como médico y espía en favor de los EE.,UU., el Dr. Abram, infiel, mujeriego, es emocionalmente infeliz, torturado por culpas y prejuicios, que se proyectan contra su esposa e hijo, su hermano y más antigua parentela.
López Dzur contrapone la visión sionista-territorialista, prodominialista del agente anticastrista, y la que sustenta Sara, que es mucho más espiritual, pero equilibrada por una conciencia social desarrollada y de izquierda. Por razones fuera de su control, ella decide salir de Cuba, con su hijo, sin pretender complicidad con actividades contrarrevolucionarias.

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