Chapter 1 Context; Chapter 2 The Early Years: Idealism and Experimentation; Chapter 3 Memories of Underdevelopment: The Dialectics of Identification and Alienation; Chapter 4 The Search for Cuba's “Intra-Historia”; Chapter 5 Up to a Certain Point: Turning the Lens on Himself; Chapter 6 Melodrama and the Crisis of the Revolution; Chapter 7 Conclusions;