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Dulce
María Loynaz began to be rediscovered and reintroduced to her public
in the early 1980’s through the efforts of several people simultaneously,
especially Aldo Martínez Malo, Miguel Barnet, and the great Cuban
ballerina Alicia Alonso and her husband Pedro Simón. Vicente González
Castro, a television producer, became interested in Dulce María's
work when he heard of her first nomination for the Cervantes Prize and
the publication of her Selected Poems in 1985. He began work
on a major documentary about her, which was aired for the first time on
Televisión Cubana in 1987. The video segments and historical photographs
on this website are excerpts from that program.
{Audio Link: Vicente
Castro's documentary}
Beginning in the early 1980’s, Dulce María reentered literary society. She received literary prizes and was invited to give papers. She was renominated for the Cervantes prize. Gradually, in her 80's, she became a major cultural icon.
{Audio Link: Barnet - "a frustrated woman"}
The television program Vicente
González Castro made about her shows that Dulce María remained
a strong-minded, supremely intelligent, aristocratic and attractive woman
well into her 80’s. That forceful and sometimes coquettish personality
is vividly recalled by Miguel Barnet.
{Audio Link: Barnet
- the rose and the whip}
Barnet’s description
of the last years of Dulce María life, the years of her celebrity
and especially the trip to Spain to receive the Cervantes Prize, are particularly
poignant.
{Audio Link:
Barnet
- her old age}
