Barnet, Miguel: Brief an Henze, Hans Werner. Sevilla, Montag, 5. Oktober 1981
author: Barnet, Miguel
language: es
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Oct. 5/1981

Brother: It sounds incredible, but I am here in Europe again.[^1] 12 years after we met. [Henze and Barnet had first met in Cuba in March 1969.] I am now in Spain and will be in Frankfurt from the 10th to the 20th . I will want to share at least one minute with you. [Barnet and Henze failed to meet during Barnet's trip to Germany, but they had arranged their next meeting a few months later, in May 1982. See Barnet's following letter on 14 January 1982.] Please contact me at the Book Fair in Surkhamp Verlag[^2] or phone me there. I have mixed feelings and expectation to see you. Need to see you. Brother, our friendship is young. I feel it.

[^1: The correspondence shows that Barnet was already in Europe a few years earlier, at least from May to July 1978. He mentions this trip to Russia and Estland in his letter on 3 January 1979. From 1978, Barnet was able to obtain permission from the Cuban government to travel, after seven years of not being able to travel or even publish, due to his support for Padilla in the Padilla Affair, in 1971.]

[^2: Suhrkamp published Barnet's El Cimarrón and La Canción de Rachel in German translation. In particular, in 1981, Suhrkamp published Barnet's book Alle träumten von Cuba , the German translation of Gallego. Barnet sent a copy of this book to Henze (now kept in Henze's library in Detmold) and wrote To my brother in years and emotions, Hans Werner with a love that will grow everyday and more. Yours, M Barnet.]

Miguel Barnet

[SEVILLA (40) 5. OCT. 81 EN LAS POBLACIONES DISTRITO POSTAL PONGA EL NUMERO DE] [20 PTA ESPANA CORREOS [Photo of Spain's King Juan Carlos I, in purple.]]

Hans Werner Henze
Via La Leprara 0047
Marino
Roma
Italia

Three images: on the left a building, probably a church; in the large oval on the right above, a palace with pond; and below, a small panoramic view of the city of Seville.