{"id":202761,"date":"2019-07-21T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=202761"},"modified":"2019-07-21T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:04:13","slug":"cuban-intellectual-roberto-fernandez-retamar-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/cuban-intellectual-roberto-fernandez-retamar-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban intellectual Roberto Fern\u00e1ndez Retamar passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poet, professor and essayist Roberto Fern\u00e1ndez Retamar (1930) died this Saturday in Havana at the age of 89.<\/span><\/p>\n

A statement by <\/span>Casa de Las Am\u00e9ricas<\/span><\/a>, an institution he directed since 1986, affirms that according to his family\u2019s decision, his body will be cremated and his ashes thrown into the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Retamar is one of the great Cuban intellectuals of the generation of the 1950s. He stood out as a poet and essayist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in La V\u00edbora, in 1948 he abandoned his studies in architecture to enter philosophy and literature. In 1952 he won the National Poetry Prize with his book Patrias. In 1954 he obtained his doctorate and passed his competitive examination for the post of Chair of Linguistics at the University of Havana. Then he studied at the Sorbonne (1955) and the University of London (1956).<\/span><\/p>\n

Invited by Yale University to give a course on Spanish-American literature, he was a student of Ren\u00e9 Welleck. He returned to Cuba after the triumph of the Revolution and started teaching at the School of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana. In 1960 he was appointed Cultural Counselor in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first National Congress of Writers and Artists of Cuba (1961) he was elected coordinating secretary of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Between 1961 and 1964 he was co-editor of the magazine Uni\u00f3n. He was also director of the magazine Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas, an institution which he would chair.<\/span><\/p>\n

His poetic work includes Eleg\u00eda como un himno (A Rub\u00e9n Mart\u00ednez Villena), Alabanzas, conversaciones, Vuelta de la antigua esperanza, En su lugar, la poes\u00eda, Con las mismas manos and Cuaderno paralelo, among other titles.<\/span><\/p>\n

His essay work is composed of classic texts such as Idea de la estil\u00edstica, Ensayo de otro mundo, Modernismo, noventa y ocho, subdesarrollo and Calib\u00e1n<\/em>, apuntes sobre la cultura en nuestra Am\u00e9rica<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He received numerous orders, awards and decorations, including the Felix Varela Order, the National Prize for Literature, the Alejo Carpentier Medal, the Juan Marinello Order and the Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed Order, as well as the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuban culture mourns him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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