18 mai 2012
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Clémentine Lucien, « Dance life, dance death in San Miguel de los Baños, in Abilio Estévez’s El bailarín ruso de Monte-Carlo », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10670/1.shecf3
Fleeing Cuba and settling in Barcelona, the autodiegetic teller, a José Martí’s specialist, sixty years old and lame, Constantino Augusto de Moreas, who was thirsty of liberty, takes the reader of El bailarín ruso de Montecarlo in a travel through memory to the 1970’s in a deserted Cuban Health Resort. It was a place of evasion from an oppressive environment imposed to a young man attracted by the gracefulness of dance and weary of the ideology of New Revolutionary Man. Of course, the haunting Cuban dancer he keeps remembering and the references to Nijinski act as an obsessive bridge between two literary spaces, Barcelona and Cuba. The novel develops one of Abilio Estévez’s obsessions, namely the access to freedom through the beauty of art.