Juan Abreu

Havana, 1952. Cuban novelist and painter. He left Cuba through the port of Mariel in 1980. Some of his published books include ‘Garbageland’ (2001), ‘Gimnasio’ (2002), ‘Accidente’ (2004), ‘Cinco cervezas’ (2005), ‘Diosa’ (2007), ‘Una educación sexual’ (2012), and the memoirs ‘Debajo de la mesa’ (2016 and 2025). He lives in Barcelona.

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Reading to Escape

May 25, 2025 / Juan Abreu

I read to save myself. I read everything, Greek theater and Sholokhov’s trash. Marcel Proust and the terrifying Chapaiev.