My e-mail to
Luis Garcia has been replied, yet the answer has not arrived yet.
With
this, I mean the message has been seen by Luis’ assistant but, unfortunately,
the explanation I was hoping for must wait until our character has a bit of
spare time. Therefore, let me take this space to tell you what my question was,
and why I formulated it.
Lately,
I have been emerging myself in the poems and books written both by and about
Montero. I had notice that, at some point during his career, the poet switches
from personal sounding poems about love, sex and days of rain such as Tu Me Llamas, Amor…(You Call Me, Love…), to those pieces with strong political themes.
The poet's romantic communist ideas and ideals rapidly escalated into his second
vocation: politics. The 27th of February 2015, he was proposed by the regional left party
as a candidate of the community of Madrid.
People
usually do not convert and invest their time so passionately in something they
have just discovered. What triggered this change in him and how long ago? It
was in this state of mind that I started reading his book No Me Cuentes tu Vida (Don’t Tell me your Life). Although the book
is a fictional piece about the life of an ordinary man and his Rumanian
housekeeper, I cannot help but remark how much his protagonist seems to mirror
the life and internal conflicts of the man who created him. The housekeeper, an
immigrant from a country with political hardship, reminds me of collection of
poems, Quedarse sin Ciudad (Being Left
with no City.) The book also explicitly recalls the incident of Rota on the 25th
October.
As
Montero sais for the newspaper El Mundo “su tiempo y su poesia siempre han sido
el reflejo de sus inquietudes (his time
and his poetry have always been a reflection on his concers.” Was he raised in a
communist family? Or was he influence by the ideologies of other poets he had a
great intellectual admiration for, such as Angel Gonzalez? Was the Rota event a
trigger, or an unrelated event used to portray the essence of his beliefs?
My question is, which hypothesis tells the true story?
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