Major Cuban Novelists
Title | Major Cuban Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond D. Souza |
Publisher | Columbia : University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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These chapters present a general survey of the development of the Cuban novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific and detailed studies of the works of Alejo Carpentier, Jose Lezama Lima, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. This study affords a review of how a novelistic tradition took form in Cuba and a more detailed appreciation of some recent outstanding achievements.
Major Cuban Novelists
Title | Major Cuban Novelists PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond D. Souza |
Publisher | Columbia : University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
These chapters present a general survey of the development of the Cuban novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific and detailed studies of the works of Alejo Carpentier, Jose Lezama Lima, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. This study affords a review of how a novelistic tradition took form in Cuba and a more detailed appreciation of some recent outstanding achievements.
Cuban-American Literature of Exile
Title | Cuban-American Literature of Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Alvarez-Borland |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780813918136 |
The Cuban revolution of 1959 initiated a significant exodus, with more than 700,000 Cubans eventually settling in the United States. This community creates a major part of what is now known as the Cuban diaspora. In Cuban-American Literature of Exile, Isabel Alvarez Borland forces the dialogue between literature and history into the open by focusing on narratives that tell the story of the 1959 exodus and its aftermath. Alvarez Borland pulls together a diverse array of Cuban-American voices writing in both English and Spanish--often from contrasting perspectives and approaches--over several generations and waves of immigration. Writers discussed include Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Roberto Fernandez, Achy Obejas, and Cristina Garcia. The author's analysis of their works uncovers a movement from narratives that reflect the personal loss caused by the historical fact of exile, to autobiographical writings that reflect the need to search for a new identity in a new language, to fictions that dramatize the authors' constructed Cuban-American personae. If read collectively, she argues, these sometimes dissimilar texts appear to be in dialogue with one another as they all document a people's quest to reinvent themselves outside their nation of origin. Cuban-American Literature of Exile encourages readers to consider the evolution of Cuban literature in the United States over the last forty years. Alvarez Borland defines a new American literature of Cuban heritage and documents the changing identity of an exiled literature.
Cuban Writers on and Off the Island
Title | Cuban Writers on and Off the Island PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela María Smorkaloff |
Publisher | Macmillan Reference USA |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Examines the works of important Cuban and Cuban-American authors, including Reinaldo Arenas and Oscar Hijuelos.
A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida
Title | A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida PDF eBook |
Author | Carolina Hospital |
Publisher | Pineapple Press Inc |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781561641048 |
-- An anthology of the writings of 33 of the most important Cuban men and women of letters, such as Felix Varela, Jose Marti, Juana Borrero, Jose Yglesias, and Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- An enlightening and comprehensive introduction examines the historical importance of the Cuban contribution to Florida's heritage -- The works are presented in English, most translated here for the first time
Major Cuban novelists : innovation and tradi
Title | Major Cuban novelists : innovation and tradi PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond D. Souza |
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The Transparency of Time
Title | The Transparency of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Leonardo Padura |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374719934 |
From Leonardo Padura—whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix’s Four Seasons in Havana—The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money. Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla—a black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty-first century Havana as well as the distant past, as he delves as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the statue. Through vignettes from the life of a Catalan peasant named Antoni Barral, who appears throughout history in different guises—as a shepherd during the Spanish Civil War, as vassal to a feudal lord—we trace the Madonna to present-day Cuba. With Barral serving as Conde’s alter ego, unstuck in time, and Conde serving as the author’s, we are treated to a panorama of history, and reminded of the impossibility of ever remaining on its sidelines, no matter how obscure we may think our places in the action. Equal parts The Name of the Rose and The Maltese Falcon, The Transparency of Time cements Leonardo Padura’s position as the preeminent literary crime writer of our time.