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Memories of Underdevelopment and Inconsolable Memories

Memories of Underdevelopment and Inconsolable Memories

by Tomas Gutiérrez  •  Edmundo Desnoes  •  Michael Chanan (Editor)

  • LITERATURE
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 258 PAGES

This book incorporates both the novella by Edmundo Desnoe, and the script of the movie by Tomas Guttierez. It is the story of a bourgeois writer who chooses to stay behind in Cuba when his family leaves for Miami --- and must struggle to adapt to a new and somewhat absurd social order. With biographical sketches, chronology of the revolution, reviews and commentary.  (CBA12, $27.00)


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