New York, November 4, 2019 \u2013 Dominican writer and university professor Dr. Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez, will present his latest novel \u201cEl rostro sombr\u00edo del sue\u00f1o americano,\u201d (The Grim Face of the American Dream \u2013 non official translation) this Saturday, November 16, at the Ministry of Culture\u2019s Dominican Cultural Commission, based in New York City.<\/p>\n
The launching ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Commission\u2019s Rafael Villalona Theater, situated at 541 West 145th Street, Second Floor, almost corner of Broadway, in Manhattan. <\/p>\n
The novel tells the story of Armando Guerra, a social worker whose father is Dominican and mother Puerto Rican. He was born in a New York City hospital and throughout his life in the United States, he manages to overcome serious obstacles to reach the much-talked about American dream. His strong personality comes from his strong-willed stepmother Granmadre, an American Jew who teachers Latin America literature in New York City. Also, from Do\u00f1a Epi, a Mexican museographer who consolidates his professional aspirations by linking him with important episodes of U.S. history through a diary written by George Washington and found by her at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, in Manhattan. This is the place where Washington led, between September and October of 1776, the battle of Harlem Heights, the only battle he won in New York and New Jersey during the War of Independence.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the American dream is determined by professional, social and economic success, Armando reached this dream. He has a traditional professional, a decent salary, a sound family life, a comfortable home, two children, two Rottweilers and an Angora cat. He, however, doesn\u2019t feel that he has reached this dream. \u2018This would be perfect for a full-blooded American, or for those who want to pretend they are. Not for people like who has had to deal with unfinished nightmares, broken dreams, endless nights and, worst yet, drag a long list of woes that no one cares about, or shakes them to their very core and strengthens their conscience,\u2019\u201d he ponders.
\nArmando\u2019s history ends when, at the age of 55, he resigns. His last warning is that \u201cno one dare write in my tomb an epitaph that is different from the one I have written and that appears at the end of this story. The grim face of the American dream reveals, from a non-passionate perspective, that the American dream is a tremendous nightmare, an illusion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cultural Commissioner Carlos S\u00e1nchez invites the general public to the book launching event, explaining that the novel\u2019s author, Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez, \u201cis one of the diaspora\u2019s most important writers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Brief Profile<\/p>\n
Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez is an essayist, literary researcher, poet and educator. He holds a Masters and a Doctorate in Hispanic American and Caribbean Literature from the City University of New York (CUNY), where he has taught courses in this area since 1988. He has published 23 books covering various areas, such as \u201cEvas terrenales: Bibliographies of 150 Dominican Women Authors (2000);\u201d \u201c33 Dominican Historians (2002);\u201d \u201cDictionary of Dominican Literature (2004);\u201d \u201cEl canal de la delicia (2010);\u201d \u201cDiasporando (2011);\u201d \u201cDe Cementerios, Varones y Tumbas (2012),\u201d and \u201cLas tumbas de los Trujillo\u201d (2016) (all non-official translations). <\/p>\n
In the year 2000 his book \u201cEnriquillo: Radiograf\u00eda de un h\u00e9roe galvaniano\u201d won the National Essay Award in the Dominican Republic. This is his second novel.<\/p>\n
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