La muerte del olvido, getting closer to reality
Guantanamo, March 7.- “To get closer to reality and everything that surrounds us, is the main reason for writing ‘La muerte del olvido y otros relatos’”, the author confessed, Regino Rodríguez Boti, psychiatrist and has master’s degree in Sexology, during the presentation of the book at the Regino Eladio Boti Art and Literature Center, at the 18th International Book Fair.
“La muerte del olvido y otros relatos” is the compilation of four stories in which the characters deal with their loneliness, hard living and try to find a relief through the memories and what the future will bring.
Journalist: What inspired you to write this book?
Regino Rodriguez: "A very basic reason, to get closer to reality of my life and around us.Since a long time I need to say that neither the past nor the future is what a man live, but here, now”.
"La muerte del olvido y otors relatos" is marketed in the 18th edition of the International Book Fair, as one of the 16 Guantanamo offers to readers across Cuba published by El Mar y la Montaña Editorial House of this eastern province.
Journalist: What do you expect from La muerte del olvido y otros relatos?
Regino Rodriguez: "This book is very important to me, because it reflects to certain extent the moment I’m living, and that’s why I suggest it to the readers in this International Book Fair, since I bring this book as an invitation to fully live the present.
Journalist: The name and reputation of his grandfather can be a challenge and commitment to their personal creative work. What can you say about that?
Regino Rodriguez: "My grandfather was a cigar maker, teacher of the institute, poet, a great studious of history and by himself filed his works, then my mother closed the file for life and history."
"He was a great poet and I do not think to be his replicate, or outshine as narrator, although I have done poetry since childhood. I basically feel the need to tell a truth of the life I live though, that maybe comprises part of his life or maybe not.”
Journalist: What new projects motivate you this year?Regino Rodriguez: "I have many plans. This title is an advance of an oral history project entitled `Historia oral del sacrificio` and I don't know what fate has in store. This is a novel in which nearly 100 people talk about their lives at a Guantanamo house’s backyard; it is a human work, vital, full of unique characters and it is sometimes tragic."
Through “La muerte del olvido y otros relatos”, Reginito as is also affectionately known, shows a psychiatrist and writer, the man who expresses his feelings and ideas and he believes that "the future is not what we enjoy, the present, here, now.”
Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez
