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The Oval Portrait : Contemporary Cuban Women Writers and Artists, Paperback / softback Book

The Oval Portrait : Contemporary Cuban Women Writers and Artists Paperback / softback

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The Oval Portrait was originally published as El retrato ovalado (Ediciones Union, Havana, Cuba, 2015).

Editor Soleida Rios set a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban women writers, artists, and thinkers.

She asked each to "choose a mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears in the story as well as the connection (always mysterious) and the symbol with which she has chosen to represent herself." The result, beyond being a postmodernist tour de force, was "a perfect vehicle for introspection." As Rios herself puts it: "The game requires us to go deep....

Shall we say: Rather than a portrait, construct a mirror, through which you may touch the difficult and shared places. And then, at the end, ask yourself the question: Which are your favorite lies?"

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