Un olor a rosas llega desde el mar: entre la literatura de Gabriel García Márquez -cuentos cortos- y la música de Rubén Blades -álbum Agua de Luna-.

Abstract

Un olor a rosas llega desde el mar is an investigation that looks into the conception of a universal Latin America reflected in the works of two intellectual interpreters of the Caribbean, Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Through points in common such as the stories and violent events, the sea, the scents of perfumes and the navigator's journey into mysterious waters, events are revealed that date back to a friendship that drove the conception of possibly one of the most criticized discographic works in the entire career of El poeta del pueblo, the album Agua de Luna, which in the words of the artist himself, is a reinterpretation of the first stories of Garcia Marquez, arranged as a parallel world in the enigmatic sonority that synthesized the group Seis del Solar in the eighties of the last century. With this particularity, it is evident that the literature of the Caribbean is exposed in the songs of the album with notable differences that result from the mind of the composer and his sound world, which has been copied from the Latin American realities, a world called Hispania. This paper reveals the connections between the stories and the songs, seen from a qualitative methodology that allows us to touch upon themes implicit in Blades' artistic work, such as carnival, the concept of open oeuvre, semiotics and intertextuality, among many others, which become relevant as we delve deeper into specific aspects of the songs. The evident connection with the primigenios antecedents and the cultural and political panorama of the world that Blades and García Márquez lived in, are part of the beginning of a phenomenon that forced them to venture into foreign lands and that gave them a global cosmovision, now implicit in the character of their oeuvres.