Guillermo Rosale Biography

Rosales, a Cuban novelist, wrote in reaction to both his homeland's totalitarian regime and the indifference of Cuban-American exiles pursuing the American Dream. A double exile himself, his work is considered among the finest Cuban literature of the latter half of the twentieth century. His writing is characterized by a precise, lapidary style, grappling with themes of personal responsibility within totalitarian rule and the search for meaning in existential desolation. Despite the destruction of most of his work, his surviving novels offer a haunting and significant literary contribution.