Sartre in Cuba–Cuba in Sartre

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‘I would rather go on being underdeveloped.’ Rereading and recontextualising Edmundo Desnoes's 1965 novel Memorias del subdesarrollo

“…He then willingly surrendered (some of) the material trappings of status. Desnoes was inspired by Sartre, especially after his visit to Cuba in 1960 with Simone de Beauvoir (Rowlandson 2018). Sartre was explicit in his essay "Existentialism is a humanism" that his philosophy, contrary to the venomous critical reception of Being and Nothingness, was optimistic.…”