'Benitez-Rojo 'plays upon Spanish-American history rousingly, with an incessant hail of luminous, violent imagery and an unmistakable indignation...He writes wonderfully, with life, edge, and the density of a poem...With the semi-millennial anniversary of Columbus's landfall almost upon us, this novel makes us sorry that America was discovered.' --John Updike, New Yorker
'Benitez-Rojo 'plays upon Spanish-American history rousingly, with an incessant hail of luminous, violent imagery and an unmistakable indignation...He...
In this masterful collection of short stories, a celebrated Cuban writer continues his imaginative exploration of the genesis of the modern Caribbean world. Intent on recovering the interior history (la infra-historia) of this astonishingly diverse region, Antonio Benitez-Rojo ranges widely across time and geography. He also experiments with a variety of narrative techniques and prose styles, each intended to capture some unique aspect of the Caribbean's heterogeneous, polyrhythmic cultural heritage. Thus "The Broken Flute" centers on a tragic anthropological reflection; "Windward Passage"...
In this masterful collection of short stories, a celebrated Cuban writer continues his imaginative exploration of the genesis of the modern Caribbe...