Los intrusos
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
NONFICTION | 2023 | 144 pages
WINNER OF THE 2022 ANAGRAMA/UANL SERGIO GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ CRÓNICA PRIZE
In Los intrusos, Carlos Manuel Álvarez explores recent events in his native Cuba, specifically his experience during the 2020 protests organized by the San Isidro Movement that brought together over two hundred Cuban artists, intellectuals, and activists.
The protests took place after the detention of the rapper Denis Solís. Los intrusos is a detailed chronicle of the peaceful movement that shook the island for several days. Aside from the author’s firsthand experience, the action is interwoven with profiles of some of the protagonists of the events.
Revolution, dictatorship, totalitarianism: a book that tells the story of the historical drift of the Cuban Revolution and its regime from perspectives that go beyond the Cold War and focus on the concrete conditions of contemporary Cuban and the Latin American context.
A detailed exercise in observation about a movement that changed the Cuban political landscape forever as well as a meditation on the role of journalism, writing, and art.
RIGHTS: spanish ANAGRAMA
“Carlos Manuel Álvarez immerses himself in the recent history of his country, Cuba, offering us a crónica that is as rigorous as it is original and risky, full of diverse registers, thus demonstrating that he is one of the best voices of his generation.”
“If the purpose of what we call crónica is to tell reality with the tools and weapons of fiction, this is crónica at its best. And if the essay form is about trying to understand why things happen, this is an essay through and through. Sitting between the two, Los intrusos takes the best of both genres making it a book that I am proud to have declared a winner.”
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Los intrusos
NONFICTION, 2023
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