Barnet, Miguel: Brief an Henze, Hans Werner. Donnerstag, 14. Januar 1982
author: Barnet, Miguel
language: en
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(This is a note at the airport of Havana, excuse me for the handwriting) [Barnet wrote this letter at the airport as on other occasions and then gave it to someone to take it to Europe.]

Enero 14, 1982
Dear brother:

I had a beautiful trip in Europe [Barnet went on a trip in Europe from October 1981 until 13 January 1982 at the latest, but did not meet Henze. See Barnet's previous postcard on 5 October 1981.] and now back home I began to work on a new project. But I have not forgotten about our encounter in May. [Barnet and Henze actually met some months later, in early May 1982, in Marino.] I am expecting to see you and embrace you and to talk for years of silence. [Barnet and Henze had not seen each other in person since January 1970.]

Reynaldo Gonzales is a very close friend and a brother also. He is planning to stay about a month in Italy lying around.

Please send any letter with him or any inquiry. [The correspondence located to date indicates that Henze did not make contact with the writer González.] I will see you, ¡I hope!, in the first week of May because I'll take a plane to Madrid and then to Rome. [Barnet also announced his arrival at Fiumicino airport, close to Rome, in a subsequent letter.]

You have no idea how I am longing for you and waiting for the moment to see you. We will go, then, to Rostock. [In regard to Henze and Barnets' trip to Rostock see Henze's Autobiography, p. 395.]

A big hug,
Miguelito