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Mea Cuba
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by Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Kenneth Hall
Sales Rank: 1748692
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 503 pages
Published by: Farrar Straus & Giroux T November 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0374204977
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0374204976
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.5 x 2 inches
Weighs: 1.9 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
This informative, entertaining collection of Infante's essays, speeches and book reviews features the viewpoint of an anti-Castroite expelled from Cuba's Union of Writers and Artists as "a traitor to the revolutionary cause." Infante (Infante's Inferno), born in 1929, has been in exile since 1965, living mostly in Madrid and London. Antic and cheerfully defiant, he here expresses scathing disgust over Castro's policy toward Cuba's gay writers and discusses several of them. Infante's favorite is clearly Virgilio Pi?era, whose work he predicts "will live, twist and giggle forever." He also introduces us to Lydia Cabrera, whom he calls Cuba's greatest lady writer. The collection includes a masterful piece on the reactions of eminent foreign writers who have visited his homeland, such as Federico Garcia Lorca, Graham Greene and Edna O'Brien. Quirky, unpredictable, often hilarious, Infante's book tells us much about the effect of the Cuban revolution on Cuban literature.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This collection of essays, commentaries, and satires describes the miserable and impoverished plight of the Cuban nation and especially of Fidel Castro, its leader for the last 35 years. Cabrera Infante is a distinguished literary figure who fled Cuba in 1965 to pursue a career as an author in exile, free from governmental oppression and intimidation in a nation where thought-control and censorship are daily fare and where freedom of expression is allowed only to the extent that it dovetails with the dictator's decrees. These writings reveal not only the worsening conditions in Cuba but also the difficulties faced by a writer working in exile when the political leaders of his native country mount a concerted campaign of condemnation and defamation on global scale. Useful for students of 20th-century Latin American politics and literature.
Philip Y. Blue, Dowling Coll. Lib., Oakdale, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Mea Cuba (Paperback)
In this book Cabrera Infante takes us by the hand through the history of Cuba, past and present, in a masterful way. As a growing teenager in Cuba myself in the sixties, I can "see" again all that happened in the beautiful island-archipelago from a richer, most understandable perspective than when I was there and saw things take place, but did not fully understand them: The witchhunt against all intellectuals who dared "think" what was not sanctioned by the totalitarian state and its main disease: Castroenteritis ! The repression against "hippies", "Beatle Lovers", homosexuals, singers and anyone who could challenge the Caribbean Nazi-Stalinism. (It made me remember my "underground" listening to the Beatles!). An excellent, deep analysis of causes and consequences, of life in internal and external exile and very sharp chronicles about the lives of poets, writers, politicians and "men with many exes decorations", i.e. exminister, exambassador, exrevolutionary, experson, etc. Incredibly good use of the Spanish language, worthy of the prize Cabrera Infante recently earned: The Cervantes Prize of the Spanish language! I highly recommend this book for lovers of true history and of the Spanish language!
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