Map Drawn By A Spy
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0914671782 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Unable to leave the country, denied access to party officials, yet still receiving checks for his work in Belgium, Infante discovers the reality of Cuba under Fidel Castro: imprisonment of homosexuals, silencing of writers, the closing of libraries and newspapers, and the consolidation of power. In 1965, following his mother's death, Infante returns to Cuba from Brussels, where he is employed as a cultural attaché at the Cuban embassy. When a few days later his permission to return to Europe is revoked, Infante begins a period of suspicion, uncertainty, and disillusion. Both lucid and sincere, Map Drawn by a Spy is a moving portrayal of a fractured society and a writer's struggles to come to terms with his national identity
Map Drawn by a Spy is the third work by Infante to be published posthumously.Mark Fried lives in Ottawa, Canada. His most well-known work, Tres Tristes Tigres, labeled as counterrevolutionary by the Cuban government, has been compared to Joyce's Ulysses. He is the translator of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days,
Melanie Gilbert said Undercover. The phrase, “too little, too late” springs to mind when reading this book. The manuscript was discovered after the death of novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante, a Cuban exile living in London. It’s done in the man-on-the-street, unfolding style of Is. Stephen O. Murray said A flat narrative of Cuba ca. 1965 that badly needs contextualization. It is difficult to evaluate Map Drawn by a Spy. Presuming that the epigrams were attached to the manuscript found after the death of long-exiled Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante (19"A flat narrative of Cuba ca. 1965 that badly needs contextualization" according to Stephen O. Murray. It is difficult to evaluate Map Drawn by a Spy. Presuming that the epigrams were attached to the manuscript found after the death of long-exiled Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), the title was probably his, but there is a complete lack of informatio. 9-"A flat narrative of Cuba ca. 1965 that badly needs contextualization" according to Stephen O. Murray. It is difficult to evaluate Map Drawn by a Spy. Presuming that the epigrams were attached to the manuscript found after the death of long-exiled Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), the title was probably his, but there is a complete lack of informatio. 005), the title was probably his, but there is a complete lack of informatio
"A geography of disillusionmentCabrera Infante's tone is quiet and melancholicAn exile's plainspoken testimonial, bookending Orwell's Homage to Catalonia in the literature of political disappointment." — Kirkus Reviews"Completed in the 1960s, soon after Cabrera Infante’s last Cuban interlude, this memoir is an engaging sketch of a midcentury man of lettersIt’s also the piercing lament of an exile, who sees his world disappearing even before he departs it." — Publishers Weekly"This book has greatly moved me, not only due to the fondness I have always felt for Cabrera Infante, but also because of what it reveals about his character, the city of Havana, and the era of the Cuban Revolution It is a bare and atrocious testimony of what it means when, gone the euphoria and joy of victory, a revolution transforms into supreme power, that Saturn who sooner or later devours his own children, beginning with those he finds closest, who most often are the greatest." -- Mario Vargas Llosa"To say that I have read Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Map Drawn by a Spy in one sitting, and with great enthusiasm, is to cut myself short." -- Juan Goytisolo, El Pais"The book reads with the same vertigo as that in which it was written Map Drawn by a Spy is the intimate cartography of a farewell." -- Juan Bonilla, El Mundo