Dream with No Name Contemporary Fiction from

Comprising a literary map of the moral and aesthetic geography of Cuba, this volume includes stories by Marya Montero, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Olivares Baro, Pablo Armando Fernandez, and other writers, both new and well-known.

JUANA PONCE DE LEÓN is a writer, literary critic, and the former editor in chief of Siete Cuentos Editorial, the Spanish-language imprint of Seven Stories Press. Her articles have appeared in many publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, Hispanic, Publishers Weekly, and Sí.
ESTEBAN RÍOS RIVERA is a poet and a member of the Union of Younger Writers of Cuba. He lives in Havana.

Acknowledgments

7

(2)

Editors' Prefaces

9

(4)

Introduction

13

(6)

Sonia Rivera-Valdes

An Unexpected Interlude Between Two Characters

19

(4)

Jacqueline Herranz Brooks

13th Parallel South

23

(10)

Angel Santiesteban Prats

The Waiting Room

33

(38)

Arturo Arango

Ten Years Later

71

(10)

Marilyn Bobes

The Hunter

81

(14)

Leonardo Padura Fuentes

The Tropics

95

(18)

Miguel Mejides

Small Creatures (from La orfandad del esplendor)

113

(18)

Carlos Olivares Baro

Something Is Happening on the Top Floor

131

(8)

Reinaldo Arenas

Miosvatis

139

(12)

Miguel Barnet

A Love Story According to Cyrano Prufrock

151

(12)

Lourdes Casal

Blind Madness

163

(6)

Miguelina Ponte Landa

Little Poisons

169

(12)

Sonia Rivera Valdes

Curriculum Cubense (from From Cuba With a Song)

181

(12)

Severo Sarduy

Skin Deep

193

(8)

Antonio Benitez Rojo

The Charm

201

(24)

Pablo Armando Fernandez

Dream with No Name

225

(18)

Ramon Ferreira

The Storyteller

243

(14)

Onelio Jorge Cardoso

The Great Baro

257

(12)

Virgilio Pinera

Journey Back to the Source

269

(20)

Alejo Carpentier

Credits

289

(4)

Authors' and Translators' Biographies

293

(11)

About the Editors

304

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Dream with No Name Contemporary Fiction from Cuba

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