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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tVisionary Density\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t92%<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTransgressive\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t88%<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tUrban Memory\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t93%<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tB<\/span>orn in Banes, Holgu\u00edn, Cuba, in 1964,\u00a0Jorge Betancourt Batista<\/strong> is a Cuban writer and visual artist whose work moves across narrative fiction, poetry, dramaturgy, and the visual arts. His artistic formation has shaped a literary universe marked by an intense exploration of the body, the city, desire, memory, violence, and marginality as territories of conflict, revelation, and survival.<\/p>He is the author of books such as Hipot\u00e9tico duende de los harapos<\/em> (1985), Er\u00f3ticos<\/em> (1993), Las leyes del deseo<\/em> (1993), Un animal de triste apariencia<\/em> (Argentina, 2021), and Lo que trajo la resaca<\/em> (Chile, 2021), among other works. With Brightstars Publishing & Media, he has expanded this body of work through Havana Lux<\/em> and Havana Underground<\/em>, two books that form part of an ongoing queer literary series devoted to the hidden, wounded, erotic, and marginal territories of Havana.<\/p>His writing is rooted in a pagan, subterranean Havana, far removed from any idealized representation, and gives voice to characters and bodies often pushed to the edges of visibility: queer subjects, exiles, hustlers, aging lovers, trans women, wounded men, survivors, and lives marked by poverty, desire, violence, illness, and abandonment. Across genres, he engages radically with sexuality, inner exile, symbolic violence, memory, and the persistence of the erotic as a form of resistance.<\/p>
Influenced by writers such as Reinaldo Arenas and Pedro Juan Guti\u00e9rrez, Betancourt Batista<\/strong> has forged a voice of great sensory force, where lyric intensity, narrative tension, obscenity, tenderness, cruelty, humor, and decay coexist without moral simplification. His work embraces excess, repetition, and corporeal imagery not as ornament, but as part of the vital pulse of a wounded city and the underground lives that continue to burn within it.he<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tDiscover Your Next Book<\/span><\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t- New Releases<\/a><\/li>
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B<\/span>orn in Banes, Holgu\u00edn, Cuba, in 1964,\u00a0Jorge Betancourt Batista<\/strong> is a Cuban writer and visual artist whose work moves across narrative fiction, poetry, dramaturgy, and the visual arts. His artistic formation has shaped a literary universe marked by an intense exploration of the body, the city, desire, memory, violence, and marginality as territories of conflict, revelation, and survival.<\/p> He is the author of books such as Hipot\u00e9tico duende de los harapos<\/em> (1985), Er\u00f3ticos<\/em> (1993), Las leyes del deseo<\/em> (1993), Un animal de triste apariencia<\/em> (Argentina, 2021), and Lo que trajo la resaca<\/em> (Chile, 2021), among other works. With Brightstars Publishing & Media, he has expanded this body of work through Havana Lux<\/em> and Havana Underground<\/em>, two books that form part of an ongoing queer literary series devoted to the hidden, wounded, erotic, and marginal territories of Havana.<\/p> His writing is rooted in a pagan, subterranean Havana, far removed from any idealized representation, and gives voice to characters and bodies often pushed to the edges of visibility: queer subjects, exiles, hustlers, aging lovers, trans women, wounded men, survivors, and lives marked by poverty, desire, violence, illness, and abandonment. Across genres, he engages radically with sexuality, inner exile, symbolic violence, memory, and the persistence of the erotic as a form of resistance.<\/p> Influenced by writers such as Reinaldo Arenas and Pedro Juan Guti\u00e9rrez, Betancourt Batista<\/strong> has forged a voice of great sensory force, where lyric intensity, narrative tension, obscenity, tenderness, cruelty, humor, and decay coexist without moral simplification. His work embraces excess, repetition, and corporeal imagery not as ornament, but as part of the vital pulse of a wounded city and the underground lives that continue to burn within it.he<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tDiscover Your Next Book<\/span><\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Sin guion previo. Conversaciones en Cuba con gente de cine<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
El Kybali\u00f3n. Edici\u00f3n cr\u00edtica comentada<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Cr\u00f3nicas del naufragio<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Havana Lux<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
El silencio del estanque<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
La maldici\u00f3n del faro<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>