An excerpt from Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo’s essay “The Cuban Revolution as a Dream of the Diaspora” explores the brilliance, magic, and heartbreak in the dreams of exiled writers.
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Literature written in exile contains unexpected bridges between what authors experience in their isolation. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the curious similarities between two banned books and the exiled writers who “created a fictional sparring of words with the Commander-in-Chief who drove them from their homeland.”
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Literature written in exile contains unexpected bridges between what authors experience in their isolation. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the curious similarities between two banned books and the exiled writers who “created a fictional sparring of words with the Commander-in-Chief who drove them from their homeland.”
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How does terminal illness change a writer’s style? Horacio Castellanos Moya looks at Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas and his Viaje a La Habana which Arenas wrote while dying of AIDS.
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Horacio Castellanos Moya profiles Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas and ponders how much impending death affects a writer’s style.
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