History of A Cuban Struggle Against the Demons

History of A Cuban Struggle Against the Demons

History of a Cuban Struggle Against The Demons ( "Historia de una pelea cubana contra los demonios" in spanish) is a book written by Fernando Ortiz Fernández, published in 1959 by the university of Santa Clara city: "Universidad Central de Las Villas".[1][2] The book is a voluminous essay in which the author analyses the history of Remedios, when a priest named José González de la Cruz, alarms all the people of the town with news that the prince of darkness Lucifer commands an army of demons against them, with the propose to move the settlement to another place in his own lands. This history occurred toward the end of the seventeenth Century, when the centers towns of the Cuban Island was nearby to be forgot by the Spanish Monarchy. Remedios as Trinidad and Sancti Spírirus lived in a continuous smuggling with pirates and cosairs. This same pirates sometimes attacked this settlements, and a part of the people of Remedios fear them and support the desires of the priest. In the end, a part of the population of Remedios go out and setter in "hatos de cupey" a nearby region, the city named Santa Clara, in the present day the capital of the Villa Clara province.

Movie adaptation

Tomas Gutierrez Alea made a film adaptation of the book, named: "A Cuban Struggle Against Demons", in 1971.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Fernando Ortiz passes away, ethnologist, folklorist, historian". RedCien, Cuban Science network. 1969. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Biblioteca Virtual de Filosofía y Pensamiento Cubanos - Fernando Ortiz Fernández". biblioteca.filosofia.cu. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "A Cuban Struggle Against the Demons (1972)". Letterboxd. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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