![]() While I was still at the university, I began to write. I studied architecture mainly due to a lack of a vocation for anything else. Then I moved to Cienfuegos and always relied on reading as a kind of second skin in which to take shelter. Marcial Gala: I was born in Havana in the same mansion where poet Julián del Casal died, only by then, it was an abandoned place, divided up into rooms, where I think that the poet’s ghost appeared to me at night because I was living through a kind of continual distress. Samuel Jaffe Goldstein: Tell us about yourself, a brief overview of who you are and how you came to write Call Me Cassandra? This conversation took place over Zoom and Marcial’s answers were translated by Anna Kushner. To understand those circumstances I talked to Marcial about myths, growing up in Cuba, and writing about Cienfuegos, which I once thought was a minor city. Raul, like Cassandra, is a victim of both personal and political circumstances. ![]() He knows he is going to die on a remote base in Angola, but he is both unwilling and unable to change his fate. Gala picks up where Homer and many others left off with a psychological portrait of the prophet, Cassandra, who also gives his newest book its eponymous title.Įxcept we are not in antiquity but the city of Cienfuegos in the 1980s where we meet Raul and learn of his doomed ability to see the future. Marcial Gala understands that The Iliad’s narrative force is its ability to both describe an all-consuming war and present the very human characters that make up that battle. ![]()
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