Ebook {Epub PDF} The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala

Marcial Gala. Translator: Anna Kushner. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pages. THE BLACK CATHEDRAL is an interesting piece of prose writing. Due to its narrative structure, a series of short paragraphs moving from character to character, and from present to past then past to present, it is certainly a “read at one sitting” bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. Marcial Gala was born in Havana in He is a novelist, poet and architect, and is a member of UNEAC, the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Award for short stories in LA CATEDRAL DE LOS NEGROS received the Alejo Carpentier Award for novels in and the Critics' Award for the best books published in Cuba in /5.  · Marcial Gala is a novelist, poet, and architect from Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in The Black Cathedral received the Alejo Carpentier Award for best novel in and the Critics’ Award in It was published in English translation this bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.

The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala Translated by Anna Kushner. Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate. The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic. Marcial Gala was born in Havana in He is a novelist, a poet, and an architect and is a member of UNEAL, the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. He won the Pinos Nuevos Prize for best short story in The Black Cathedral received the Alejo Carpentier Award for best novel in and the Critics' Award in He lives in. THE BLACK CATHEDRAL By Marcial Gala. A "virtuous" structure, according to John Ruskin, must "act well, and do the things it was intended to do in the best way."It must "speak well, and.

Told by a chorus of narrators—including gossips, gangsters, a ghost, and a serial killer—who flirt, lie, argue, and finish one another’s stories, Marcial Gala's The Black Cathedral is a darkly comic indictment of modern Cuba, gritty and realistic but laced with magic. It is a portrait of what remains when dreams of utopia have withered away. The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala is set in a run-down neighborhood known as Punta Gotica in the real Cuban city of Cienfuegos, where an architecturally unique cathedral is planned for the Church of the Holy Sacrament. This may be all the more significant considering that Cienfuegos is known for its own particular brand of architecture and city planning, drawing notice for its neoclassical buildings and adherence to a rectangular grid structure. The Black Cathedral is a multi-voiced novel, the narrative a quilt of recollections by witnesses to and participants in events in a neighborhood in the Cuban city of Cienfuegos (and, in part, way beyond it), covering many years. It is a look at the past, a sort of how-did-we-get-here collection, with many of the figures involved now distant from them and that place, including physically.