All the Vultures and the Tiger
Todos los buitres y el Tigre.
Jorge Luis Arzola
Nuevos Tiempos. 67.

A contemporary fable. With a poetical and concise language, the characters (with archetypal names like “Fat Man”, “Prince”, “Woman”) take shelter in their dreams from the cruelty of the environment, a never explicitly named Cuba. Between the literary aspirations of the main character and the vain attempts of his parents of protecting their last cow in a situation of increasing economic shortage, each of the characters fights against the precipice of their physical and psychic existence, in the mythical reality of a country punished by a mysterious plague symbol of an oppressive and threatening regime.

Jorge Luis Arzola (Jatibonico, Cuba, 1966)

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