cultura cubana revive sus dramas a traves de la memoria. Entre la isla y el exilio se entabla una feroz disputa por el legado nacional. La discordia del pais se ha desplazado a la esfera de los simbolos. De quien son los muertos de una guerra civil? Como se edifican los panteones culturales en cada orilla del conflicto? Como juzgar el pasado? Tras la desaparicion de sus clasicos (Lezama, Pinera, Carpentier, Guillen, Arenas, Sarduy, Cabrera Infante), la cultura cubana experimenta una «sensacion de cementerio». En este libro se describen las costumbres funerarias de una cultura desgarrada por la revolucion, la disidencia y el exilio, y narra una breve historia intelectual de Cuba. Aqui se reconstruyen los grandes debates cubanos del ultimo medio siglo y se ofrecen semblanzas de sus protagonistas: Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Cintio Vitier, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Heberto Padilla, Jesus Diaz, Raul Rivero... / Half a century after the explosion of a revolution, which destroyed the Republican order, unleashed civil war and caused an exile on a massive scale, Cuban culture revives its dramas through memory. Between the island and exile a ferocious dispute arises over the national legacy. The countrys discord has moved into the sphere of symbols. Who do the dead of a civil war belong to? How are cultural mausoleums to be built on each side of the conflict? How can we judge the past? After the disappearance of the classics (Lezama, Piñera, Carpentier, Guillén, Arenas, Sarduy, Cabrera Infante) Cuban culture is going through a graveyard feeling. In this book the funerary customs of a country ravaged by revolution, dissidence and exile are described, and a brief intellectual history of Cuba is told. Here the great Cuban debates of the last fifty years are reconstructed and biographical sketches of its protagonists are offered: Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Cintio Vitier, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Heberto Padilla, Jesús Díaz, Raúl Rivero...

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