Settling accounts with history: the Four Seasons, Leonardo Padura

  • Uriel Quesada Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans/LA, United States of America.
Keywords: Padura Leonardo, Cuban Literature, Trauma, Detective fiction, Historical fiction

Abstract

Leonardo Padura (CUBA, 1955) has become one of the most important contemporary Latin American writers. Padura started his career as a literary critic, and by the end of the nineties he published the first of his many detective fiction books. His most important detective novels constitute the tetralogy entitled, The Four Seasons. In the present article, I discuss those four novels, and show how The Four Seasons may be considered an example of what critic Noé Jitrik has called cathartic historical fiction.

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Published
2016-07-04
How to Cite
Quesada, U. (2016). Settling accounts with history: the Four Seasons, Leonardo Padura. Dialogos, 20(1), 02 - 07. Retrieved from https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/Dialogos/article/view/32261