Sartre in Cuba-Cuba in Sartre
This book explores Sartre's engagement with the Cuban Revolution. In early 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir accepted the invitation to visit Cuba and to report on the revolution. They arrived during the carnival in a land bursting with revolutionary activity. They visited Che Guevar...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319616964 |
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Table of Contents:
- 'You have no right to ignore the Cuban Revolution.'
- Hurricane over Sugar
- 'We are living in the fashionable district.'
- 'mon pauvre ami, in Latin America they have revolutions every year: it's their way of voting.'
- 'No sugar, no island.'
- 'Castro is not an easy man to wrap up.'
- 'Revolution is strong medicine.'
- 'The contrecoup of the Agrarian Reform was the revolt of Matos and his garrison.'
- 'Guevara was the most cultivated and, after Castro, one of the most lucid minds of the revolution.'
- 'Literature is a fight, a position.'
- Palabras a los intelectuales
- 'Sartre preaches revolution'
- 'You don't arrest and jail those who disagree with you.'
- 'Sartre's self-imposed role was not simply to announce his stand but to reveal Cuba.'
- 'Sartre very soon condemned the worst aspects of Castrism. The Cuban fiesta was over, his eyes were rapidly opened.'
- 'Man is capable of changing the conditions of his life. But he cannot change whatever he wishes and however he wishes; indeed, only by changing himself can he change objective needs.'.