Volume 42, Number 2 · February 2, 1995
Talking Cuba
By Alastair Reid
Mea Cuba
by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. translated by Kenneth Hall with the author
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 503 pp., $23.00
In Mea Cuba, Guillermo Cabrera Infante gathers together all the separate writings on Cuba—articles, essays, memoirs, portraits, reflections, prepared talks—that he has produced since October 3, 1965, the day he left Cuba on a flight to Belgium (where he had been serving as cultural attaché) on the understanding of the authorities that he would not return for two years. His own understanding was different. As the plane passed the point of no return, he says,
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