Edmundo Desnoes (

Havana, Cuba Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

, 1930), is a Cuban writer author of the novel ''Memorias del subdesarrollo'' (''

Memories of Underdevelopment ''Memories of Underdevelopment'' ( es, Memorias del Subdesarrollo) is a 1968 Cuban drama film written and directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes entitled ''Inconsolable Memories'' (''Memorias del Subde ...

''), a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois intellectual struggling to adapt to the process of the

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staying on the island after his family decides to leave the country. He originally called the work ''Inconsolable Memories'' in the first English edition. The book was adapted in 1968 into the seminal Cuban film of the same title ''Memorias del Subdesarrollo (

'') by the director

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (; December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed more than twenty features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolu ...

, the name by which it is also known in English. During the 1960s and 1970s, while living in Cuba, Desnoes wrote for the newspaper "La Revolucion" and was editor of art and literature for the ''Editorial Nacional de Cuba'' and ''El Instituto del Libro,'' and was a member of the editorial board of ''Casa de Las Americas'' and was also professor of Cultural History at the ''Escuela de Diseño Industrial'' (2) He has lived in

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since 1979. In 2008 he published ''Memorias del Desarrollo'' a follow-up to his original novel which was adapted by

Miguel Coyula Miguel Coyula Aquino (born March 31, 1977, in Havana) is a Cuban filmmaker and writer. At age 17, he made his first short with a VHS camcorder, which led to his admittance to Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (The International Film and ...

into the 2010 movie Memories of Overdevelopment. He has focused his writing on essays, short stories, art reviews, poetry, and many novels.

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