The Autobiography of Fidel Castro
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The Autobiography of Fidel Castro

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eBook - ePub

The Autobiography of Fidel Castro

About this book

"A compelling fictional personage-by turns arrogant, funny, pompous, lewd, self-absorbed and self-deluding."—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

An audacious "biography" of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro's own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro's inner circle during some the most challenging years of the revolution. But in the late 1990s, as the regime began sending its oldest comrades to the firing squad, he became A Man Who Knew Too Much. Escaping a death sentence and now living in exile, Fuentes has written a brilliant, satirical, and utterly captivating "autobiography" of the Cuban leader—in Fidel's own arrogant and seductive language—discussing everything from Castro's early sexual experiences in BirĆ”n to his true feelings about Che Guevara and his philosophy on murder, legacy, and state secrets. Critics have long admired Fuentes's writing; one U.S. article called him "Norman Mailer's Cuban pen pal." Akin to Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, or Edmund Morris's Dutch, this wickedly entertaining, true-to-life masterpiece is as imaginative and outsized as Castro himself.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. ALSO BY NORBERTO FUENTES
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Epigraph
  6. Dedication
  7. CONTENTS
  8. MAP OF CUBA
  9. NOTE ON THE CURRENT EDITION
  10. I DISMANTLE THEREFORE I WRITE—A PROLOGUE
  11. BOOK ONE: THE PARADISE OF OTHERS
  12. BOOK TWO: ABSOLUTE AND INSUFFICIENT POWER
  13. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
  14. CHRONOLOGY OF FIDEL ALEJANDRO CASTRO RUZ
  15. PHOTO CREDITS
  16. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS