New senses for Havana’s fiction. Jorge Enrique Lage: Many Havana(s) of the future

Abstract

The Cuban narrative, with some exceptions, has been characterized by two main ways: one heroic and one ironic (Álvarez-Tabío, 2001). The present text starts from the previous idea to demonstrate new forms of configuration the Havana city from the poetics of the young Cuban narrator, Jorge Enrique Lage, who seems to imagine in many of his texts Havana as a “plan B, an ephemeral place” (Luiselli, 2010).