An ode to the beauty and tragic silencing of José Lezama Lima, “Letters to Eloísa” reminds us that freedom’s greatest bounty is the right to speak, to disagree, to protest and to love without bound.
Premieres Friday, Oct. 15, 2021 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Tuesday, Oct. 19 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. A haunting portrait of a writer’s life and struggle for artistic freedom, meet Cuba’s Jose Lezama Lima, an all but forgotten figure of the Latin American literary boom that included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Octavio Paz and Mario Vargas Llosa.