by Miguel Barnet · Casa Editorial Abril · tapa dura · ISBN 9789592106932
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«La fuente viva» is the testimonial novel by Cuban writer Miguel Barnet, published by Casa Editorial Abril in hardback (362 pages, in Spanish).
La fuente viva is an exploration of Cuban culture and society through the eyes of Miguel Barnet. The work combines fiction and testimony to offer an approach to the island's history and identity.
This edition has been expanded and corrected by the author and includes an index for easy reference.
For readers interested in Cuban culture and testimonial narrative.
Miguel Ángel Barnet Lanza is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. Known as an expert on Afro-Cuban culture, he studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimarrón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who was 103 when they met. He had escaped and lived as a marron before slavery was abolished in Cuba.
