{"id":298965,"date":"2024-03-29T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=298965"},"modified":"2024-03-29T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:56:28","slug":"lydia-cabrera-with-her-magic-from-coral-gables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/between-two-waters\/lydia-cabrera-with-her-magic-from-coral-gables\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Cabrera, with her magic from Coral Gables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spanish Radio and Television (RTVE) reported at the end of January that they had just rescued from the archives an episode of the legendary program A Fondo, directed and hosted by Spanish journalist Joaqu\u00edn Soler Serrano. It is about the barely known conversation that he had with Cuban writer, painter and ethnologist Lydia Cabrera. To achieve this he had to travel from Madrid to Miami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program was aired on May 17, 1981. It had been recorded somewhere in Coral Gables. Soler Serrano himself said that they had had to go to \u201cFlorida, the Sunshine State\u201d to be able to carry out what he had been planning for a long time; and underlines in his elegant and informed style: \u201cOur long, tenacious search for years was not successful, and since she did not come to Spain, we came to look for her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman in front of him, sitting a short distance away, has a slow, confident manner. Throughout the talk, her expression will show a subtle sense of humor, a strong will and the knowledge that sustains the nobility of her blood. Between the two of them are the books that the interviewee has written during long and intense years of research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuentos Negros de Cuba<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Monte<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anag\u00f3. Vocabulario Lucum\u00ed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La sociedad secreta Abaku\u00e1<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La laguna sagrada de San Joaqu\u00edn, Ayap\u00e1: cuentos de Jicotea<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refranes de negros Viejos\u2026.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Although she spoke of others that she kept unpublished and did not expect to print, because \u201cprinting is very expensive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Atentos a la chara &#39;A fondo&#39; de Joaqu\u00edn Soler Serrano con la escritora Lydia Cabrera. La recuperamos de mayo de 1981 &#8211;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BPlcxZvRvU\">https:\/\/t.co\/BPlcxZvRvU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/06jOtX4pqY\">pic.twitter.com\/06jOtX4pqY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Archivo RTVE (@ArchivoRTVE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArchivoRTVE\/status\/1752383676254466429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lydia Cabrera is 80 years old, but a burst of freshness prevails over her. \u201cI am a very young octogenarian,\u201d she warns sarcastically, aware that that conversation will not be enough to tell her story, that no matter how much she digs into her past, the interviewer will not have all the answers to explain a life also marked by legend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has silver hair and wears tortoiseshell glasses. She is wearing a dress with a leopard skin print and black shoes. Crossed legs. \u201cI\u2019m a very shy person,\u201d she warns, smiling, slightly leaning on the couch, thoughtful. She adds: \u201cI\u2019ve always been a lonely person.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that time she had already been in exile for 20 years, nurturing what the journalist will call the \u201cother Cuba,\u201d the one that was beginning to move away from \u201cFidel\u2019s Cuba,\u201d or from \u201cCastro\u2019s Cuba\u201d; and about which the interviewee makes few references, although she remembers the destruction of a project that she had been lovingly putting together with Mar\u00eda Teresa de Rojas, Titina, in Marianao.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_298968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298968\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-298968\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-1024x1022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-750x749.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1-1140x1138.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-1-1.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-298968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the Quinta de San Jos\u00e9. Photo: University of Miami Digital Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both would have wanted to transform the Quinta de San Jos\u00e9, the shared residence for years, into a Museum in which the \u201cCuban people\u201d could see the evolution of \u201cthe Cuban house.\u201d But, with her departure from the island after the Revolution, the property ended up demolished and nothing was known about the hundreds of objects it treasured. It was the year 1960. \u201cI knew everything that was going to happen,\u201d she says: \u201cwhat worried me was the hysteria\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What she does abound in is an idea that had fascinated her since her youth: the deeply rooted magical African world in that Cuba of stone and water that no human being will be able to alter or displace from the point where it emerged, interposing promisingly between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Unsuspected, almost virgin vestiges of an ancestry deeply established in the blood of the nation were visible before her eyes: the African.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was like a stubborn preservation of a memory, so strongly emphasized that, for example, \u201cmany things that were lost in Nigeria were preserved very pure in Cuba.\u201d Seeking testimonies for works and books that she decided to write inspired by her studies of Eastern traditions, she interviewed hundreds of black people, survivors of plantations or servants in cities such as Trinidad, Havana and Matanzas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In those places she discovered that even past languages such as Yoruba were preserved, and traditions remained intact, the preservation of which she attributed to the fact that the laws during slavery were \u201cmore humane\u201d in Spain, and consequently, on the island, thanks to the \u201ctemperament of the Spanish.\u201d There is a phrase referred to by a former slave to the researcher that says much more than what she expresses: \u201cNo, child, no way, in those times we were very well off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_298970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298970\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298970\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-4-1.jpg 488w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera-4-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-298970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Cabrera with Mar\u00eda Teresa de Rojas. Photo: University of Miami Digital Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The connection with the magical world of black Africans had been so powerful on the island that Cabrera was convinced that that African heritage, \u201cthe gods,\u201d had also moved into exile and that cities like Miami or New York had been filled with Lucum\u00ed and Nzo Ngangas temples, of conga magic. She claimed even more: that many compatriots returned to the place they had left solely for the idea of \u201cgetting initiated\u201d into that fascinating world of spirituality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Serrano pointed out, based on a quote taken from the researcher\u2019s books, for a type of people, life is something that must be protected by magical means and many people also need these powers to survive in a strange land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigation of that cosmos determined the future of Lydia Cabrera, it consolidated her fame and gave her a special place in literature itself. Not by chance, when establishing a kind of exemplification of the canon of the insular voice, Guillermo Cabrera Infante places her since the late sixties alongside Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed, Jos\u00e9 Lezama Lima, Virgilio Pi\u00f1era, Lino Nov\u00e1s Calvo, Alejo Carpentier and Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lydia Cabrera was born on May 20, two years before history marked the date for the island. For this reason, she considered her birth \u201ca joy of independence,\u201d since she \u201cwas not programmed.\u201d She was the youngest of eight siblings. Among them, Emma was her favorite and perhaps Esther, who was married until her death to Fernando Ortiz and unintentionally strengthened the relationship with the person who would be her initiator \u201cin the taste for Afro-Cuban folklore.\u201d\u00a0<strong><sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her childhood was spent in a house on Galiano Street that is impossible to trace today (they tell me), in whose library, her father\u2019s, she learned to read, an exercise forged in her constant visits to the printing presses of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba y America<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the magazine founded in New York by her father, Raimundo Cabrera, who was a lawyer, writer, journalist, founder of the Autonomist Party and president of the Friends of the Country Economic Society. \u201cInteresting guy my old man,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She accompanied her sister Emma to classes in San Alejandro and consolidated an artistic vocation with family friends, such as painter Leopoldo Roma\u00f1ach, who used to work in the Cabrera home itself. She then went to France, where she had a painting studio that she abandoned when she understood that she should dedicate herself to research and literature. She had understood that her country hid an unexplored world to which she wanted to bear witness. \u201cI always say and repeat that you never see what is close to you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Monte<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0was what \u201cdazzled\u201d her, the encyclopedia where she showed us that \u201cthe saints\u201d are not in heaven, but \u201con the mountain.\u201d But, in addition, she wrote dozens of stories and fables linked to the mystical and animal world. \u201cAnimal folklore in Cuba is very rich,\u201d she tells her interviewer, who has drawn attention to stories in which she notices an abundance of animal stories, and briefly establishes an analogy with Rudyard Kipling, the famous English author whom the author met at a Czech spa in 1937.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Fernando Ortiz, texts like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuentos Negros en Cuba<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0open \u201ca new folklore chapter in Cuban literature.\u201d The assertion was made in the prologue of the Cuban edition, in 1940, where he explains that \u201cthese stories-fables imagined in an African language (Yoruba, Ewe or Bantu), have been translated into a mixed and dialectal language of Cuban blacks\u201d on which Cabrera worked, in what he calls \u201ca second translation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_298971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298971\" style=\"width: 1018px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-298971\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1-1018x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1-750x755.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1-1140x1147.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/lydia-cabrera2-1.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-298971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cabrera with informants for her research. Photo: University of Miami Digital Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is, Ortiz points out, a \u201cdifficult, but loyal\u201d task, which gave rise to \u201ca new addition to folklore literature in Cuba\u201d thanks to the \u201cspontaneity of her poetry and her art\u201d and the fact that they were narratives \u201cfull of fantasy\u201d that arrived on the island preceded by great success thanks to its edition, in French, in 1936, thanks to Gallimard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Already in the magazine <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estudios afrocubanos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the voice of the Society of Afro-Cuban Studies whose president was Ortiz himself, one of those stories by Lydia Cabrera (\u201cSusundamba,\u201d dedicated to Alejo Carpentier) had been published in 1938, although this is not included in the book. Those stories were written by chance, she said, \u201cto amuse Teresa de la Parra, the Venezuelan who was a very good friend of mine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Cuentos Negros<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Lydia Cabrera constitute a unique work in our literature. They provide a new accent. They are of dazzling originality. They place Antillean mythology in the category of universal values. And if they make me evoke the names of Kipling, Lord Dunsany and Selma Lagerl\u00f6f, it is because, with remote and involuntary analogies of purpose, they withstand comparison with certain stories by these authors,\u201d Carpentier assured, shortly after the French edition came out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lydia Cabrera died in Miami ten years after the interview with Soler Serrano. In testimony collected by researcher Madeline C\u00e1mara, her friend and executor Isabel Castellanos says that she gradually faded away after weeks suffering from serious macular degeneration of the retina that had deteriorated her activity, her work \u201cand the great entertainment that painting, writing, reading were for her.\u201d\u00a0<sup><strong>2<\/strong><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the night of her death, in the midst of her serenity, Lydia Cabrera murmured a timid word: \u201cHavana!\u201d Her friend wanted to know what she had said, and she repeated the name of the city that had seen her born at the beginning of the 20th century. \u201cThat you are in Havana?\u201d Castellanos says she asked, to which the writer responded with a nostalgic and definitive statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhere did you get all that history?\u201d Lydia Cabrera asked during the interview. \u201cWell, from the archives,\u201d she responded along with Soler Serrano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Sources:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSusundamba,\u201d Lydia Cabrera: in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estudios Afrocubanos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, N.1 Vol. II, 1938, p. 58.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuentos Negros de Cuba<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Lydia Cabrera, Havana, La Ver\u00f3nica, 1940, digital edition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLa muerte de Trotsky referida por varios escritores cubanos, a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s- o antes,\u201d in: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tres Tristes Tigres<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alejo Carpentier, <a href=\"https:\/\/lacasaeditora.org\/los-cuentos-negros-de-lydia-cabrera-por-alejo-carpentier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCuentos Negros de Lydia Cabrera,\u201d<\/a> in: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carteles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Havana, 28 (41), p. 40, October 11, 1936.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Notes:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><sup>1<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0Fernando Ortiz, in \u201cPrejuicio\u201d a Cuentos Negros de Cuba. Havana, 1940.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><sup>2<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0Testimony read in: \u201cDiosas de \u00e9bano para Cuentos negros de Cuba de Lydia Cabrera,\u201d doctoral thesis by Mar\u00eda Goretti S\u00e1nchez, digital edition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is 80 years old, but a burst of freshness prevails over her. \u201cI am a very young octogenarian,\u201d she warns sarcastically, aware that that conversation will not be enough to tell her 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