Agua Por Todas Partes

Una fascinante ventana abierta a la sala de m quinas de Padura, que permite al lector curiosear por todo aquello que rodea y conforma su escritura.

Los libros de Leonardo Padura est n hechos de historia, y de literatura, y de humo de cigarro cubano, y del b isbol al que tan aficionado es el narrador de La Habana. La nueva obra de Padura es una celebraci n y un homenaje al g nero de la novela, del que se siente tan deudor; en sus p ginas aborda cuestiones en torno este invento que lleva ya cuatro siglos tratando las cuestiones de los humanos y siendo una herramienta de transformaci n de la sociedad y un reflejo de ella. Sin embargo, Padura no esquiva el mbito personal y nos muestra la parte m s ntima de su trabajo, la cacharrer a, la mesa donde cobran vida personajes y tramas que luego pasan a formar parte de sus celebradas novelas. Contiene un brillante relato de c mo se transforma en material narrativo lo que empieza siendo una tenue luz en la mente del escritor. Dicho en palabras del propio autor: entre una obsesi n abstracta, casi filos fica y el complicado proceso de escribir una novela, existe un trecho largo, lleno de obst culos y retos .

Padura lleva gentilmente de la mano al lector, y se encarga de iluminar ese complicado camino hasta dejarlo a las puertas del edificio de la novela.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A fascinating window open to Padura's engine room, which allows the reader to look at everything that surrounds and shapes his writing.

Leonardo Padura's books are made of history, and literature, and Cuban cigar smoke, and of baseball to which the narrator from Havana is so fond. Padura's new work is a celebration and a tribute to the genre of the novel, to which he feels so indebted; In its pages he addresses issues around this invention that has been dealing with human issues for four centuries and being a tool for the transformation of society and a reflection of it. However, Padura does not shy away from the personal sphere and shows us the most intimate part of his work, the china shop, the table where characters and plots come to life that later become part of his celebrated novels. It contains a brilliant account of how what begins as a dim light in the writer's mind is transformed into narrative material. In the author's own words: "between an abstract, almost philosophical obsession and the complicated process of writing a novel, there is a long way, full of obstacles and challenges".

Padura gently takes the reader by the hand, and is in charge of illuminating that complicated path until he leaves him at the doors of the building of the novel.