Talk:Jorge Reyes
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[edit] deletion
healthy sales rank [1]. remedy for a bad article is not deletion. - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 18:59, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The crap
If anybody else can extract any biographical facts from this drivel, then please feel to do so. -- 67.116.255.168 06:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] On Jorge Reyes
I think that Rediscovering Cuba was/is a good book, one whose overall theme and truth has proven to withlast the years while similar ones have just gone on to gather dust in bookshelves. My cousin studied it in a Latino literature course in a college somewhere in the Midwest! (Go figure).
Reyes's main theme in that book-- that the problems facing Cubans since 1959 has been, mostly, one created by themselves-- is very much a sad truth the more I think about it. That he returned to Cuba and wrote about it without having to divert his emotions into an overtly political dissertation egged on by political sides is a testament to his power as a writer. That a lot of people criticized him for it considering that he went to see his beloved grandmother who was dying, is even more tragic.
As for the other books he's written, I tend to disagree with the statement that Reyes writes across a wide variety of issues. Personally, I believe that Reyes sticks to his guns and doesn't divert from the world he's known and what he seems to want to represent in literary form. Everything he's written, from his first book for children down to the one and what he seems to be working on has one thematic line of evolution which can only mature and become better with time.
We'll see.
Reyes, it seems, polarizes groups of people who either hate him or admire him. There's no in-between.
By the way, has anyone read a short story of him called 'Sweet Obscenities'? I read it in galley form in an unpublished manuscript and the story was so engrossing that I read a few times before I could put it down. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.196.69.155 (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Reyes' Day's Night
I haven't read much about Reyes or what he's written except for an unpublished copy of Day's Night. From what publishers have said, the manuscript is constantly being revised by Reyes himself, so what I read may be very different from the final product.
The book is a cross between Lord Byron's dark poems and Homer. It is a book of poems closer to an epic drama than poetry! I'm not sure that Neith Nevelson's illustrations had been included in the manuscript I read.
Does anyone know how I can get a final unpublished copy? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.196.69.155 (talk • contribs) .
