Gordiano Lupi, “L’Avana amore mio”

Whether it’s Piombino or Havana, the nostalgia for what is lost tears Gordiano Lupi in the same way. In the first case it is about something distant in time, which cannot return because it no longer exists, that is, the hometown of when the author was a boy. In the second it is a place that cannot be regained, because it is distant in space and forbidden, the Havana that Lupi must not visit as an “unwelcome person”, the Havana that his wife Dargys brought with her in abandoning it, aware that getting on the plane meant cutting the past, breaking ties with family and with the whole known world up…