La huida en el cuento cubano de los noventa

The article is capturing the political, economic, and social content that gave birth to the massive immigration from the island. The text presents the differences that can be perceived in the literary works of two generations of Cuban writers that, although they lived during the same time period, reacted differently to the phenomenon of the departure and exile. The article explores the nuances that the concept of “the departure” has on the stories of a group of young writers, named “Novísimos”. These writers suffered the worst years of the economic crisis, the “Special Period” during the nineties. This generation wrote about “escaping” as a reoccurring theme in their literature to show how it was to live with that environment and the disenchantment with a Revolution that didn’t give them more options than disruption with an unsuccessful project.