Demonized Angels

The text, aimed at reflection and enjoyment with accurate links to literature, constitutes an appreciable editorial title of Frank Padrón

Ana Margarita Sánchez Soler, asanchez@enet.cu

Frank Padrón is not only a renowned film critic, but also an interesting writer. His narration transcends the mere literary reference to contextualize it in Cuban daily life.

After publications such as Erosiones (2001) and Los latidos del espejo (2008), Padrón takes up the genre of the story through El secreto demonio de los ángeles.

The theme of homoerotism is approached from the philosophy and proximity to the literature of Bocaccio. However, the characters and situations are very Cuban. In all stories the angels and the demons are changed to come together in more complex beings as much as sexuality is.

About the stories of the book it has been stated: “Sometimes in distant Sodom, with the mission entrusted by Yahweh to make the sinful biblical city perish by fire, others in a small Havana apartment making the traditional matrimonial diptych an experience of three, or how a group of pedantic oral narrators who seek to elevate the traditional and so Creole tales of relaxation to a competitive literary experience in night of blackouts “.

Text aimed at reflection and enjoyment, with accurate links to literature and a diaphanous language, El secreto demonio de los ángeles constitutes appreciable editorial title.

Translated by ESTI