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Book Review
Between Two Worlds and a Revolution: The Effects of the Cuban Revolution on Cuban Writers of the Exile and in Cuba
2007
Overview
[...]at the end of the book Alvarez includes an Appendix with four interviews of Cuban writers in which each author discusses his/her perception of culture in revolutionary Cuba. Cabrera Infante also adds his own elucidating comments about important Cuban writers and poets, and the political persecution that he faced while living in Cuba. [...]the theme of post-revolutionary Cuba as a phantom in the life of Cabrera Infante connected to his anti-Castro political view. Among the topics discussed, the most interesting one would be the one discussed in the last chapter about AIDS in Sarduy' s last novel written by Justo and Eleonor Ulloa. Besides being very informative, wellwritten, and not overcrowded with unnecessary literary theory, the chapter gives an important overview of the last days of Sarduy's sickness, how he coped with his emotional feelings and the stress of his illness, and how everything he was living through and facing at that time was portrayed by him in his last novel. [...]I want to add that, in one way or another, all of the books reviewed in this essay challenge the reader's perception of contemporary Cuban literature.
