Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374260869 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Intellectuals alienated from the Castro government who have told their stories tend to sound spiteful and illiberal, like Cabrera Infante; Padilla takes pains to do better. . His style is clear, sometimes witty, often bitter, persevering but not burdensome, and evincing an occasional affinity with both Orwell and Hemingway. Padilla also is at home talking literary shop about writers such as Camus, Yevtushenko et al. From Publishers Weekly "Where the paths of poetry and politics cross, there is little room for reconciliation," observes the author. Allowed to leave Cuba in 1981 following a decade in disfavor with the Castro regime, this distinguished Cuban poet offers a memoir of his experiences between 1959 and 1981, first within, then estranged from, the Cuban revolution and
Charles B. Taylor said Get the Digs on Fidel Castro. You may know that the American poet Allen Ginsberg was thrown out of Cuba in the 1960's for questioning the regime's treatment of homosexuals. Herberto Padilla knew Fidel personally before he became dictator. You see his hunger for power and his willingness to tell lies to reach his ends. You also get depicted the slow squeeze on freedom expression in Cuba. Well worth reading.. "A Stunning Work" according to Voltaire. This is a haunting work, revealing the surreal wreck of human relationships and trust under a dictatorship and police state.
The autobiography of Cuba's finest poet, whose condemnation by the Castro regime became a cause celebre.