{"id":227222,"date":"2020-09-08T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=227222"},"modified":"2020-09-08T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:53:12","slug":"padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his new novel <em>Como polvo en el viento<\/em>, Leonardo Padura (Havana, 1955) narrates, through constant and temporary vertiginous ups and downs, the story of El Clan, as he calls a group of friends formed in the Cuban capital during the 1980s. The house of one of them, Clara, which for the author embodies \u201cfidelity, love and permanence,\u201d is the base and turning point of the different destinies of the characters and that mostly pass through the exile.<\/p>\n<p>The generous historical context and the disparate way in which each one of them assumes his condition of exiled, from Irving\u2019s incurable nostalgia (\u201cromantic, patriotic, irreverent,\u201d according to Padura) despite falling in love with his new host city, Madrid, to the clean slate of the most radical of all, Elisa (\u201cfor her a single adjective: terrible\u201d), give away a deep and addictive reading, the result of more than two years of research work and trips to the scenarios where the story unfolds, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Tacoma (Washington), passing through Madrid\u2019s Parque del Retiro, Barcelona\u2019s Ramblas or the Tarragona summer enclave of Segur de Calafell.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EJmEBYHUQi\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/literatura\/como-polvo-en-el-viento-una-novela-muy-visceral-de-padura\/\">\u201cComo polvo en el viento\u201d, una novela \u201cmuy visceral\u201d de Padura<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00ab\u201cComo polvo en el viento\u201d, una novela \u201cmuy visceral\u201d de Padura\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/literatura\/como-polvo-en-el-viento-una-novela-muy-visceral-de-padura\/embed\/#?secret=4zIgAuRHq0#?secret=EJmEBYHUQi\" data-secret=\"EJmEBYHUQi\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>EFE<\/em> interviewed Padura in his home, an apartment full of plants, art, recognition and memories on the humble second floor of a shared house in Mantilla, the Havana neighborhood that saw him grow up, also as a writer.<\/p>\n<p>Since <em>Como polvo en el viento<\/em> is already available in Spain (Tusquets) and in the coming weeks it will arrive in bookstores in Latin America, Padura has already received the first impressions of readers in Cuba because, he confesses, a pirated copy in PDF circulates unstoppably on the island.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This doesn\u2019t seem to bother you&#8230;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here in Cuba it doesn\u2019t bother me, because it would inevitably happen, next week or next month. I myself often consume literature that comes to me through alternative means, because there is no book market in Cuba; there are publications and they are very depressed at the moment. My previous novel, <em>La transparencia del tiempo<\/em> (2018) has not yet come out here.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Could it be that what is said about Cuba in the novel bothers someone?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My books usually annoy a lot of people and they satisfy a lot of people too, and that\u2019s part of the literature game. You write what you believe, what you think, and you abide by the consequences. Literature is not to achieve consensus; it\u2019s about reflecting a reality and there may be assessments that certain people don\u2019t find pleasant. I always say that the truth is relative. However, the lie is absolute. And in my book there are no lies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The characters in the novel assume and experience exile in different ways, from permanent nostalgia to the reneging of their past. Are there more dignified, valid, honest or coherent ways of facing the condition of exile than others?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. All people\u2019s options are valid, as long as they don\u2019t attack other people. If the decision of one becomes the detriment of another, there is already an ethical or political conflict. In the case of how to face exile, there is no possible reading: exile always involves uprooting, even when assumed in the best way, when you are doing well economically, when you feel emotionally satisfied.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In the book the most radical positions are criticized or satirized, of people who live in exile with hatred, for example<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t like radical postures at all. I\u2019m a heterodox, and as a heterodox I doubt; I have no absolute certainties. I think that you can always review what you think, what you feel, and understand it differently at certain times. Extreme positions, no matter how well founded they may be, always have an element that terrifies me: the exclusion of the other: if you take a position that doesn\u2019t allow dialogue, you exclude the voice of the other. How are you going to tell me that your God or your political party is the only one, that if I don\u2019t believe it the way you believe it, I\u2019m excluded, condemned, lost.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You never wanted to emigrate. If you had emigrated in the years of your youth, as the characters in your novel did, which one would you have identified with the most?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The character with whom I identified my possible position with exile is with the character who arrives in Madrid, a gay man, although I\u2019m not gay, up until now (laughs). He carries a series of belongings, of relationships. It\u2019s not the same to leave without leaving anything behind than leaving everything behind. And that\u2019s an element that roots you in a certain context and reality. That\u2019s why that character, Irving, tries to create a routine to adapt to life in Madrid, but that routine is always permeated by absence, distance, remoteness and the feeling that he is no longer who he had been.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_227240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227240\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Leonardo-Padura-Efe-1024x702-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-227240\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Leonardo-Padura-Efe-1024x702-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Leonardo-Padura-Efe-1024x702-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Leonardo-Padura-Efe-1024x702-1-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Leonardo-Padura-Efe-1024x702-1-768x527.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Leonardo-Padura-Efe-1024x702-1-750x514.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuban writer Leonardo Padura during the interview at his home in Havana. Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa\/EFE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Do you have to be Cuban to fully understand what happens in<\/em><\/strong><strong> Como polvo en el viento?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My plan was that it not be a novel only for Cubans: I believe that if you write for such a specific public you are reducing the space of literature. Unamuno said: we have to find the universal inside the local and, in the limited and circumscribed, the eternal. That\u2019s a lesson that I learned a long time ago. In this novel and in <em>The Man Who Loved Dogs<\/em>, everything leaves Cuba and returns to Cuba. And I try to make these conflicts universal. I believe that uprooting is a universal conflict, belonging is a universal behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The concept of homeland is omnipresent in the novel, as it is in Cuban idiosyncrasy. For you, what is the meaning of homeland?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I recently read from a Cuban writer in exile that the homeland is an invention of the romantic poets, but they didn\u2019t take bureaucracy into account. Bureaucracy somehow appropriates everything, including the sense of homeland. I believe that the homeland is that place with which one identifies sentimentally, spiritually, culturally. It has no replacement because that identification is permanent, it makes you who you are. You can be a cosmopolitan, have a very universal vision of the world and live anywhere, but you belong to a place. When they ask me, why haven\u2019t you left? Why do you stay in Cuba? I answer that I stay because it would be very difficult for me to be anything other than a Cuban writer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Is loving one\u2019s homeland, being a patriot, necessarily a virtue, a duty?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love of country is a laudable attitude, necessary, because you are ultimately loving yourself, your ancestors, those who are going to be your successors in that context. Here is an issue that can be complicated, what is the state, the nation, the homeland&#8230;. I think the homeland is above all that and enters a territory more of feeling than of the legal. What is legal is the state, the nation is a sociocultural, historical creation, and the homeland encompasses all that.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The concept of statelessness, as taken from your novel, has negative connotations and is even an insult in Cuba. Is it necessarily bad?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The way it has been used has a pejorative charge. There is a legal or administrative application of your condition of belonging or not to a country, and that is related to something bureaucratic, which is citizenship. Until ten years ago the migratory figure of \u201cdefinitive departure\u201d existed in Cuba: you left Cuba and lost all your rights and your citizenship except when you wanted to return, when you had to get a passport and a permit to enter. It could be quite wounding having to become stateless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Como polvo en el viento <em>draws a Cuba in the 1990s and 2000s where a single thought is imposed by force, those who think differently are repressed, poverty reaches a large majority of the population and corruption spreads in all levels. To what extent has this changed?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cuba\u2019s persecution is very complicated, because by not changing the political-economic system, it gives the impression that Cuban society has not changed. I believe that in 1989-91 there was a very deep cut in social evolution. At the beginning of the 1990s, the euphemistically called special period begins, a very deep economic crisis that caused a very deep social crisis. We\u2019ve not left neither one nor the other. We continue to drag consequences and the presence of these crises. In any case, that crisis has caused a change in Cuban society.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Your work describes how extreme social control, repression and corruption of a political system in a specific historical time deforms the destinies of the characters or destroys their lives. It also raises whether or not it\u2019s really worthwhile looking for guilty parties.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you get stuck in the search for guilt, you often don\u2019t move forward. Forgiving doesn\u2019t imply forgetting; forgetting is not the solution. Forgiveness is stepping over an offense or assault that occurs and moving forward. I believe that it\u2019s necessary to have that perspective of being able to move forward without forgetfulness being what causes that stain, but the conscious attitude that we have to build, not run aground and destroy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Does the group of idealists and intellectuals that make up El Clan represent the Cuban youth of the time?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My generation is the first in the world to go to university en masse, and specifically in Cuba. When I was studying, the only goal we had was to go to university. Over the years it has been changing. As of that crisis of before the 1990s, the university has become more selective: to get there you have to have special conditions of intelligence and material possibilities, because many times it depends on your parents being able to pay someone to review and prepare you for exams. My lifelong friends are cyberneticists, doctors, engineers, dentists, philologists as is my case, and it was not an elite group at all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_227241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227241\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EFE-entrevista-Leonardo-Padura-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-227241\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EFE-entrevista-Leonardo-Padura-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EFE-entrevista-Leonardo-Padura-1.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EFE-entrevista-Leonardo-Padura-1-300x256.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EFE-entrevista-Leonardo-Padura-1-1024x875.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EFE-entrevista-Leonardo-Padura-1-768x656.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EFE-entrevista-Leonardo-Padura-1-750x641.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ernesto Mastrascusa\/EFE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>The characters in the novel of that generation also had very strong and orthodox ideological convictions. Compared to that how do you see today\u2019s youth?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our generation was very homogeneous since we had very similar experiences, behaviors and projections. That also breaks with this crisis of the 1990s. Today you find all the possibilities: from those who want to study to those who want to establish a business; those who want to stay and those who want to leave; those who think one thing about the system and those who think another. There has been a diversity of expressions in the new generations and what happens quite frequently is that the most prepared young people are the ones who tend to emigrate the most. That is a loss suffered by the country, the homeland as we said, and it\u2019s very difficult to recover.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The novel provides a generous historical context: Obama\u2019s name appears several times, but Fidel or Ra\u00fal Castro are not mentioned despite being inherent in the context. Is this deliberate?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, because they are inherent in the historical context. Yesterday they asked me what reactions certain names produced in me. Fidel? I said \u201comnipresent.\u201d Everything that happens in our history is part of a process that was led and marked by the thought and figure of Fidel. What doesn\u2019t need to be said should not be said. In the Cuban peculiarity, it\u2019s necessary to know to what extent to advance in the explanatory or to let it be something that surprises in the reading itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In short&#8230; defeat after defeat, until the final victory.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So says a character in the novel named Bernardo, who brings the Kansas song \u201cDust in the Wind,\u201d and he also repeats that of \u201cdefeat after defeat, until the final victory.\u201d I owe the phrase to the friend to whom the novel is dedicated, Elizardo Mart\u00ednez, a Cuban who went to Puerto Rico as a child and died two years ago. It left me a great void. I stole that phrase from him to give this feeling that, look, we always lose, but we are left with the hope that in the end we will win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new novel Como polvo en el viento, Leonardo Padura (Havana, 1955) narrates, through constant and temporary vertiginous ups and downs, the story of El Clan, as he calls a group of friends formed in the Cuban capital during the 1980s. The house of one of them, Clara, which for the author embodies \u201cfidelity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3614,"featured_media":227239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13922],"tags":[4674,4533],"ppma_author":[34011,17268],"class_list":["post-227222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","tag-cuban-literature","tag-leonardo-padura-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"EFE interviews Padura in his home, an apartment full of plants, art, recognitions and memories on the humble second floor of a shared house in Mantilla, the Havana neighborhood that saw him grow up, also as a writer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d | OnCubaNews English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EFE interviews Padura in his home, an apartment full of plants, art, recognitions and memories on the humble second floor of a shared house in Mantilla, the Havana neighborhood that saw him grow up, also as a writer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OnCubaNews English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-08T17:53:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Atahualpa Amerise \/ EFE, atahualpa amerise\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Atahualpa Amerise \/ EFE\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Atahualpa Amerise \\\/ EFE\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6ee1fb06dbebdab7a90f0051eb52ba4\"},\"headline\":\"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-08T17:53:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":2096,\"commentCount\":1,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cuban literature\",\"Leonardo Padura\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Literature\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/\",\"name\":\"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d | OnCubaNews English\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-08T17:53:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6ee1fb06dbebdab7a90f0051eb52ba4\"},\"description\":\"EFE interviews Padura in his home, an apartment full of plants, art, recognitions and memories on the humble second floor of a shared house in Mantilla, the Havana neighborhood that saw him grow up, also as a writer.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":536,\"caption\":\"Photo: Leonardo Padura, at his home in Mantilla. Ernesto Mastrascusa\\\/EFE.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/culture\\\/literature\\\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Portada\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"OnCubaNews English\",\"description\":\"Revista sobre Cuba\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f6ee1fb06dbebdab7a90f0051eb52ba4\",\"name\":\"Atahualpa Amerise \\\/ EFE\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/83f9e3530d81b35bd3c7693adf14b6e8f48c2454adfff773ac5d11f662702087?s=96&r=g445a530329c5bfc64bb75972d626c598\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/83f9e3530d81b35bd3c7693adf14b6e8f48c2454adfff773ac5d11f662702087?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/83f9e3530d81b35bd3c7693adf14b6e8f48c2454adfff773ac5d11f662702087?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Atahualpa Amerise \\\/ EFE\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/oncubanews.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/atahualpa-amerise\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d | OnCubaNews English","description":"EFE interviews Padura in his home, an apartment full of plants, art, recognitions and memories on the humble second floor of a shared house in Mantilla, the Havana neighborhood that saw him grow up, also as a writer.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d | OnCubaNews English","og_description":"EFE interviews Padura in his home, an apartment full of plants, art, recognitions and memories on the humble second floor of a shared house in Mantilla, the Havana neighborhood that saw him grow up, also as a writer.","og_url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/","og_site_name":"OnCubaNews English","article_published_time":"2020-09-08T17:53:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":536,"url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Atahualpa Amerise \/ EFE, atahualpa amerise","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Atahualpa Amerise \/ EFE","Est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/"},"author":{"name":"Atahualpa Amerise \/ EFE","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f6ee1fb06dbebdab7a90f0051eb52ba4"},"headline":"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d","datePublished":"2020-09-08T17:53:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/"},"wordCount":2096,"commentCount":1,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg","keywords":["Cuban literature","Leonardo Padura"],"articleSection":["Literature"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2020","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/","name":"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d | OnCubaNews English","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg","datePublished":"2020-09-08T17:53:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f6ee1fb06dbebdab7a90f0051eb52ba4"},"description":"EFE interviews Padura in his home, an apartment full of plants, art, recognitions and memories on the humble second floor of a shared house in Mantilla, the Havana neighborhood that saw him grow up, also as a writer.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Padura-EFE-750x536-1.jpeg","width":750,"height":536,"caption":"Photo: Leonardo Padura, at his home in Mantilla. Ernesto Mastrascusa\/EFE."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/literature\/padura-i-dont-like-radical-postures-at-all\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Portada","item":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Padura: \u201cI don\u2019t like radical postures at all\u201d"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/","name":"OnCubaNews English","description":"Revista sobre Cuba","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f6ee1fb06dbebdab7a90f0051eb52ba4","name":"Atahualpa Amerise \/ EFE","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83f9e3530d81b35bd3c7693adf14b6e8f48c2454adfff773ac5d11f662702087?s=96&r=g445a530329c5bfc64bb75972d626c598","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83f9e3530d81b35bd3c7693adf14b6e8f48c2454adfff773ac5d11f662702087?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83f9e3530d81b35bd3c7693adf14b6e8f48c2454adfff773ac5d11f662702087?s=96&r=g","caption":"Atahualpa Amerise \/ EFE"},"url":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/author\/atahualpa-amerise\/"}]}},"authors":[{"term_id":34011,"user_id":3614,"is_guest":0,"slug":"atahualpa-amerise","display_name":"Atahualpa Amerise \/ EFE","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83f9e3530d81b35bd3c7693adf14b6e8f48c2454adfff773ac5d11f662702087?s=96&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""},{"term_id":17268,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-atahualpa-amerise","display_name":"atahualpa amerise","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227222"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=227222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}