Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a close friend of dead dictator Fidel Castro.
A very close friend. So close, in fact, that Fidel gave him a very nice house in Havana, a house stolen from a Cuban family.
“Gabo” — as he was known — wrote beautiful prose and won the Nobel Prize for literature, but he was a hypocrite who lacked a moral center.
And he is the undisputed king of “magical realism,” a literary approach to reality that most Europeans and North Americans consider convincing proof of the fact that all Lateeeeen-ohs are quasi-medieval dolts who lack the ability to think rationally.
In many ways he can be compared to Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher who was a Nazi.
Heidegger is as widely respected in intellectual circles as Gabo. Both are giants, perhaps even demi-gods to many in the self-anointed thinking class.
Their names tend to be uttered with the utmost reverence, in the same way some Catholics invoke the names of their patron saints.
Martin Heidegger
Both of them are the subject of intense scholarly research, and invoked constantly.
Aaaaah, but there’s a catch, isn’t there?
Are those who revere moral monsters any less monstrous than the monsters they revere?
’nuff said…..
Havana now has a statue of Gabo. Whoopee…. Yeah…. Exactly what the Cuban people need.
A monument to yet another monster.
May some dissident Cuban performance artist give this Latrine his due by using this tacky statue as a latrine.
A life-size bronze sculpture of the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was unveiled Thursday in Havana, an homage to the writer and to Cuba for its support of the peace accord with leftist FARC rebels.
The sculpture portrays the writer holding books and a rose, dressed in the traditional suit known as a liqui liqui that he wore to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
“We want to pay homage to Gabo who is so intimately linked to Havana, the Caribbean and Cuba,” Colombian ambassador to Cuba Gustavo Bell told AFP, using a nickname for the late author.
This “is a tribute, a show of gratitude from the Colombian people to the Cuban people for accompanying us in the peace process,” Bell said.
Havana hosted four years of peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the Spanish acronym FARC.
Garcia Marquez, who died in 2014, was a personal friend of deceased Cuban leader Fidel Castro and lived in Havana for a period in the 1980s.
The statue stands 1.80 meters (5 feet and 9 inches) tall and is a “living sculpture” that shows Garcia Marquez descending a staircase.
The statue was created by Cuban sculptor Jose Villa Soberon, whose other works around the city include life-size renderings of the Beatle John Lennon and Mother Teresa.
The truly proper Gabo sculpture
6 thoughts on “Statue of monstrous Castronoid cretin erected in Havana”
It’s a masterpiece. It truly looks like it was made from fecal material and daubed with blood, which is absolutely perfect on a conceptual level. Yes, it does indeed look like shit, literally, but then again, that’s what “Gabo” was.
As for the “beautiful prose,” I’ll take your word for it, but even if it had been written by someone who was not an SOB, the whole “magical realism” racket is so dubious that I wouldn’t be interested anyway. I have far better ways to spend my limited leisure time.
Personally speaking, I hate the much hyped “magical realism.” That said, I have never read anything by Garcia Marquez [can’t stomach it knowing the type of human being he was], however, considering how politicized the Nobel Committee is [Rigoberta Menchu, Obama anyone?] I wonder if he really deserved a Noble Prize in Literature?
In any case, what this statue of Garcia Marquez proves again is how anti-Cuban the so-called “revolution” is. Most countries exult their artists, you go to Paris, Madrid, Berlin and they are full of statues and plaques memorizing great French, Spanish and German artists. castro on the toher hand imprisioned, exiled and even murdered them. No statues to Reinaldo Arenas, Virgilio Piñera, Lezama Lima or Cabrera Infante, yet a statue to Garcia Marquez, John Lennon and Mother Teresa!?! What a F–ked up country. Reinaldo Arenas called it an “anti-country” because it was an enemy to its people.
Personally speaking, I hate the much hyped “magical realism.” That said, I have never read anything by Garcia Marquez [can’t stomach it knowing the type of human being he was], however, considering how politicized the Nobel Committee is [Rigoberta Menchu, Obama anyone?] I wonder if he really deserved a Noble Prize in Literature?
In any case, what this statue of Garcia Marquez proves again is how anti-Cuban the so-called “revolution” is. Most countries exult their artists, you go to Paris, Madrid, Berlin and they are full of statues and plaques memorizing great French, Spanish and German artists. castro on the toher hand imprisioned, exiled and even murdered them. No statues to Reinaldo Arenas, Virgilio Piñera, Lezama Lima or Cabrera Infante, yet a statue to Garcia Marquez, John Lennon and Mother Teresa!?! What a F–ked up country. Reinaldo Arenas called it an “anti-country” because it was an enemy to its people.
I know diplomacy is a byword for insincerity and expediency, but even diplomats should have limits. Unless the Colombian ambassador to Cuba is too stupid to put two and two together, which of course he isn’t, he’s a prime example of Latrine swinishness and full-of-shitness. To engage in such repugnant baboseo with the Castro regime is not just dishonorable and undignified but a betrayal of all Colombians who suffered or died due to terrorist guerrilla activity which was always aided and abetted by Castro, Inc. I realize this guy is just a flunky doing the bidding of the execrable Santos, who is ultimately the responsibility of Colombian voters, but this whole business reeks–it’s the unmistakable smell of eau de Latrine.
Still, you gotta love the “Gabo holding a rose” bit. It’s total BS, of course, but its real beauty is the cursilería of it, which is eminently Latrine, closely related to the excruciatingly cringeworthy and extremely embarrassing Latrine (and Castronoid) penchant for kitsch. Lord, the contempt.
It’s a masterpiece. It truly looks like it was made from fecal material and daubed with blood, which is absolutely perfect on a conceptual level. Yes, it does indeed look like shit, literally, but then again, that’s what “Gabo” was.
As for the “beautiful prose,” I’ll take your word for it, but even if it had been written by someone who was not an SOB, the whole “magical realism” racket is so dubious that I wouldn’t be interested anyway. I have far better ways to spend my limited leisure time.
Personally speaking, I hate the much hyped “magical realism.” That said, I have never read anything by Garcia Marquez [can’t stomach it knowing the type of human being he was], however, considering how politicized the Nobel Committee is [Rigoberta Menchu, Obama anyone?] I wonder if he really deserved a Noble Prize in Literature?
In any case, what this statue of Garcia Marquez proves again is how anti-Cuban the so-called “revolution” is. Most countries exult their artists, you go to Paris, Madrid, Berlin and they are full of statues and plaques memorizing great French, Spanish and German artists. castro on the toher hand imprisioned, exiled and even murdered them. No statues to Reinaldo Arenas, Virgilio Piñera, Lezama Lima or Cabrera Infante, yet a statue to Garcia Marquez, John Lennon and Mother Teresa!?! What a F–ked up country. Reinaldo Arenas called it an “anti-country” because it was an enemy to its people.
Personally speaking, I hate the much hyped “magical realism.” That said, I have never read anything by Garcia Marquez [can’t stomach it knowing the type of human being he was], however, considering how politicized the Nobel Committee is [Rigoberta Menchu, Obama anyone?] I wonder if he really deserved a Noble Prize in Literature?
In any case, what this statue of Garcia Marquez proves again is how anti-Cuban the so-called “revolution” is. Most countries exult their artists, you go to Paris, Madrid, Berlin and they are full of statues and plaques memorizing great French, Spanish and German artists. castro on the toher hand imprisioned, exiled and even murdered them. No statues to Reinaldo Arenas, Virgilio Piñera, Lezama Lima or Cabrera Infante, yet a statue to Garcia Marquez, John Lennon and Mother Teresa!?! What a F–ked up country. Reinaldo Arenas called it an “anti-country” because it was an enemy to its people.
I know diplomacy is a byword for insincerity and expediency, but even diplomats should have limits. Unless the Colombian ambassador to Cuba is too stupid to put two and two together, which of course he isn’t, he’s a prime example of Latrine swinishness and full-of-shitness. To engage in such repugnant baboseo with the Castro regime is not just dishonorable and undignified but a betrayal of all Colombians who suffered or died due to terrorist guerrilla activity which was always aided and abetted by Castro, Inc. I realize this guy is just a flunky doing the bidding of the execrable Santos, who is ultimately the responsibility of Colombian voters, but this whole business reeks–it’s the unmistakable smell of eau de Latrine.
Still, you gotta love the “Gabo holding a rose” bit. It’s total BS, of course, but its real beauty is the cursilería of it, which is eminently Latrine, closely related to the excruciatingly cringeworthy and extremely embarrassing Latrine (and Castronoid) penchant for kitsch. Lord, the contempt.