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The
Internet Travel Guide "Getting to Know Cuba"
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Current
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Literature
Due to the good school education literature has become
very popular. The Cubans favor the works by the poet José Martí
who died in the fight for freedom during the Second War of Independence.
The books by Nicolás Guillén whose poems deal with Afro-Cuban
themes are very popular, too. Alejo Carpentier, imprisoned by the
Machado regime and later a consul in Paris, became a famous novelist
outside Cuba.
 The
poet José Martí |
Ten of his works have been translated which makes
him the most translated Cuban writer. Jesus Diaz' constant and open
criticism of the present conditions in Cuba made him an enemy of Fidel
Castro. Now, the novelist lives in exile.
 Nicolas
Guillen |
The most important representatives
of the new Cuban novel are Miguel Barnet and Reinaldo Arenas. In his
shocking autobiography Before Night Falls (1993) Arenas, facing death
from AIDS, describes his struggle for the preservation of the individual
and artistic freedom both in Cuba and in the commercialized cultural
machinery of US capitalism.
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Guantanamera
I am a sincere man from where the palm tree grows. And before
dying I want to sing my verses of the soul. My verse is a clear
green, and a burning crimson. My verse is a wounded deer that
seeks refuge on the mountain. It is with the poor of the earth
that I wish to cast my fate. It is not the sea that draws me,
it is the mountain stream.
José Marti
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Information about
Ernest Hemingway and his work, "The Old Man and the Sea"“
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