Volume 38, Number 13 · July 18, 1991
Breaking Up with Castro
By Raymond Carr
Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir
by Heberto Padilla
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 247 pp., $19.95
In March 1980 the poet Heberto Padilla, after futilely asking permission to leave Cuba for some ten years, was summoned by Fidel Castro who told him that he could now go. 'Intellectuals,' he told Padilla, 'are generally not interested in the social aspect of a revolution.' As early as 1961, at a meeting with artists and writers, Castro defined the role of intellectuals: everything was permissible within the revolution and nothing was permissible against it.
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