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The Initials of the Earth: A Novel of the Cuban Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
The Initials of the Earth: A Novel of the Cuban Revolution JESUS DIAZ, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY KATHLEEN ROSS, FOREWORD BY FREDRIC JAMESON. Duke Univ., $24.95 paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-8223-3844-4
Cuban writer and filmmaker Diaz (1941-2002) originally published this novel of the revolution in Havana and Madrid in 1987, a few years before his self-imposed exile to Europe in 1991. It traces the life of Carlos Perez Cifredo, the bourgeois child of a smalltime moneylender, as he grows up into the revolution and its aftermath. The young Carlos harbors a childish adoration-cum-contempt for a poor illiterate girl, a wariness of the …
