Cuba and the Tempest

In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country’s borders, Eduardo González looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benítez-Rojo (1931–2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba. Through the positive experiences