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“The prejudice that had closed women off from any opportunity to practice the professions and trades traditionally reserved for men dramatized the life of a bold and enterprising lady who, dressed as a man and graduated as a surgeon, served as a soldier in Europe without her secret being discovered, only to have it revealed in Cuba in 1823.”

LEVÍ MARRERO, Cuba: Economy and Society

“Don’t bother me with History as theater. What matters here is poetic illusion. . . . ”

ALEJO CARPENTIER, Baroque Concerto

“Everything will have to be reconstructed, invented all over again.”

JOSÉ LEZAMA LIMA, American Expression

“The truth is, doctor, that I no longer know if it happened to me or to my little friend or if I made it up. Although I’m sure that I didn’t make it up. And yet, there are times when I think that I am, in reality, my little friend.”

GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE, Three Trapped Tigers