Las ínsulas extrañas: Memorias 2

by Ernesto Cardenal

En este nuevo tomo de sus memorias Ernesto Cardenal, considerado el fundador de la literarura mística hispanoamericana, describe la gradual radicalización de su proceso de conversión religiosa, su naturaleza de contemplativo, su comprensión o cristianización del marxismo, su práctica de un nuevo tipo de vida comunitaria en sus «ínsulas extrañas» de Solentiname y su integración en la Revolución de Nicaragua. Se trata de una concepción y práctica místicas en el contexto de la emergencia de la teología de la liberación y la revolución de América Latina.

496 pages, Paperback

First published May 22, 2002

About the author

Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas (he left the party in the early 1990s), he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.

His earlier poems focused on life and love. However, some works, such as "Zero Hour," had a direct correlation to his Marxist political ideas, being tied to the assassination of guerrilla leader Augusto César Sandino. Cardenal's poetry also was heavily influenced by his unique Catholic ideology, mainly liberation theology. Some of his later works were heavily influenced by his understanding of science and evolution, though still in dialogue with his earlier Marxist and Catholic material.--excerpted from Wikipedia