Persona Non Grata: An Envoy In Castro's Cuba
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A landmark work of political memoir and literary diplomacy, Persona Non Grata: An Envoy in Castro's Cuba chronicles Chilean writer and diplomat Jorge Edwards's turbulent forty-day mission to Havana in 1971, where he served as the first representative of Salvador Allende's newly elected socialist government. With unflinching candor, Edwards details the suffocating machinery of the Cuban revolutionary state — the surveillance, the ideological conformity demanded of artists and intellectuals, and the quiet persecution of those who dared dissent. The narrative uncovers the painful contradictions at the heart of Castro's Cuba, as Edwards witnesses firsthand the imprisonment of poet Heberto Padilla and the chilling effect it cast over the Latin American literary left. Written with the precision of a diplomat and the sensitivity of a novelist, the account presents a rare insider's critique of authoritarian socialism that earned Edwards expulsion from Cuba and controversy across the continent. Sober, courageous, and morally urgent, it stands as an essential document of Cold War Latin America and the limits of revolutionary idealism.
Author: Jorge Edwards
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
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A landmark work of political memoir and literary diplomacy, Persona Non Grata: An Envoy in Castro's Cuba chronicles Chilean writer and diplomat Jorge Edwards's turbulent forty-day mission to Havana in 1971, where he served as the first representative of Salvador Allende's newly elected socialist government. With unflinching candor, Edwards details the suffocating machinery of the Cuban revolutionary state — the surveillance, the ideological conformity demanded of artists and intellectuals, and the quiet persecution of those who dared dissent. The narrative uncovers the painful contradictions at the heart of Castro's Cuba, as Edwards witnesses firsthand the imprisonment of poet Heberto Padilla and the chilling effect it cast over the Latin American literary left. Written with the precision of a diplomat and the sensitivity of a novelist, the account presents a rare insider's critique of authoritarian socialism that earned Edwards expulsion from Cuba and controversy across the continent. Sober, courageous, and morally urgent, it stands as an essential document of Cold War Latin America and the limits of revolutionary idealism.