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100 1 _aEsteban, Ángel.
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245 1 0 _aFidel and Gabo :
_bA Portrait of the Legendary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
264 1 _a[Place of publication not identified] :
_bPegasus Books,
_c2009.
300 _c24 cm.
_a340 pages
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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520 _aThere'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 mansiona gift from Castro himselffor 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.
600 1 4 _aCastro, Fidel, 1926- --
_xFriends and associates.
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600 1 4 _aGarcía Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-
_xPolitical and social views.
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600 1 4 _aPolitics and literature.
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610 2 4 _aCastro, Fidel, 1926-
_xPolitical and social views.
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650 4 _aGarcía Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-
_xFriends and associates.
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