Edmundo Desnoes
Juan Edmundo Pérez Desnoes (* 1930 in Havana , Cuba ) is a Cuban writer and intellectual.
In 1965 Desnoes wrote the novel "Memories of Underdevelopment" (Spanish. Memorias del Subdesarrollo ), the complex story about the alienation of a Cuban citizen and his process of perceiving the Cuban revolution. The English-language edition was published in 1967 under the title Inconsolable Memories ("Memorias Inconsolables "). In 1968 the novel was made into a film by the director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea . Desnoes called this film a great example of an adaptation from the written to the visual. In 2009 the director Miguel Coyula shot another adaptation under the title Memorias del Desarrollo .
Desnoes wrote numerous essays as an art critic in the 1960s and 70s. He was also professor of cultural history at the Escuela de Diseño Industrial and consultant for the Cuban Ministry of Culture. He has lived in New York since 1979 .
Publications
- Novels
- Memories of underdevelopment , (span. Memorias del subdesarrollo ), 1965
- El cataclismo , 1965
- Essays
- Lam: azul y negro , 1963
- Para verte mejor, américa latina , 1972, libro de fotografías de Paolo Gasparini con textos de Edmundo Desnoes
- As editor
- Los dispositivos en la flor: Cuba, literatura desde la revolución , 1981
- In antologies
- Cuentos de la revolución cubana , 1970, ( Ambrosio Fornet , ed.)
Web links
- Edmundo Desnoes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edmundo Desnoes. Dartmouth College, accessed February 24, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Desnoes, Edmundo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pérez Desnoe, Juan Edmundo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana , Cuba |