GABO RELOADED / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Of García Márquez and other Demons By Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Prolific, brilliant, celebrity, provocateur, agent, incisive, insidious, one of the last intellectual icons of the Latin American left has died: Gabriel García Márquez, el Gabo. His claim on immortality is supported by a Nobel Prize, which owed a lot to the Latin American literary … Continue reading “GABO RELOADED / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

growwwing old.cu / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

20TH CENTURY OLD MAN Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo I suddenly aged today. I lived my normal life, at the margin of everything, now without understanding anything too much, but without worrying about it. I looked at death with indifference. At pleasure with a touch of horror. At society like a tolerable evil. At lies like … Continue reading “growwwing old.cu / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”