Fidel and Gabo : a portrait of the legendary friendship between Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez / Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli ; English translation by Diane Stockwell.
Esteban, Angel, 1963-; Stockwell, Diane.; Panichelli-Batalla, Stéphanie, 1978-
2009
PQ8180.17.A73 Z657513 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Fidel and Gabo : a portrait of the legendary friendship between Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez / Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli ; English translation by Diane Stockwell.
Author Esteban, Angel, 1963-
Uniform Title Gabo y Fidel. English.
Cover Title Fidel & Gabo
Edition 1st Pegasus Books ed.
ISBN 9781605980584
1605980587
Imprint New York : Pegasus Books 2009.
Language English
Description xii, 340 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PQ8180.17.A73 Z657513 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 972.91064
Summary There's no romance in the relationship between the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and the Nobel-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, argues this stinging j'accuse. On the surface their friendship is chummy and literary: Castro drops by García Márquez's Havana mansion--a gift from Castro himself--for endless conversation and critiques his manuscripts. But the authors view the men's bond as corrupt and neurotic: García Márquez, obsessed with power in both his fiction and real life, gets political influence; Castro, in turn, gets cultural prestige and a matchless propagandist. The authors condemn García Márquez's public silence over Cuban censorship and human rights violations. Almost compulsive in their point scoring, the authors jeer at the novelist for going to American rather than Cuban hospitals. More polemic than biography, their study tellingly rebukes the Left's propensity for blinding itself to the failings of the Cuban revolution by glamorizing its leaders.--From publisher description.
Note Translation of: Gabo y Fidel.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Stockwell, Diane.
Panichelli-Batalla, Stéphanie, 1978-
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Introduction: art and flies
pt. one: Love in springtime
Gods at play
If right to know is not a right, then it must be a left
Fade to black: the Padilla case
pt. two: The power and the glory
The lure of power
The patriarch in his autumn
Who's not in the family photo?
The "queen of the Caribbean": all ashore
Cubans in Angola: "Operation Carlota"
Flying high
First class
The price of paradise
pt. three: From Cuba to heaven: and God entered into Havana
Friendship with Fidel: the flip side
The dream factory: San Antonio de los Baños
Justice or vengeance?: the "Ochoa Case"
Nailed to the cross: Elián in his golgatha
An epilogue of sorts: a little story about the elevator
Afterword: Swan song.

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