Fidel and Gabo
Subtitle: a portrait of the legendary friendship between Fidel Castro and Gabriel García Márquez
By: Ángel Esteban and Stéphanie Panichelli ; English translation by Diane Stockwell
Contributors: Panichelli, Stéphanie, 1978-
Edition: 1st Pegasus Books ed.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781605980584
Subjects: Friends and associates; Politics and literature; Political and social views
Other titles: Fidel & Gabo
Work titles: Gabo y Fidel
Description: There's no romance in the relationship between the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and the Nobel-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, argues this stinging j'accuse. On the surface their friendship is chummy and literary: Castro drops by García Márquez's Havana mansion--a gift from Castro himself--for endless conversation and critiques his manuscripts. But the authors view the men's bond as corrupt and neurotic: García Márquez, obsessed with power in both his fiction and real life, gets political influence; Castro, in turn, gets cultural prestige and a matchless propagandist. The authors condemn García Márquez's public silence over Cuban censorship and human rights violations. Almost compulsive in their point scoring, the authors jeer at the novelist for going to American rather than Cuban hospitals. More polemic than biography, their study tellingly rebukes the Left's propensity for blinding itself to the failings of the Cuban revolution by glamorizing its leaders.--From publisher description.
Notes: Translation of: Gabo y Fidel.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-323) and index.