Mario Conde quisiera ser Mario Conde: (Leonardo Padura y su casi alter ego policía)

Abstract

Leonardo Padura moves away from the patterns of 70’s and 80’s Cuban Police Novel through the construction of a controversial character, Mario Conde, who disavows the typical characters of therevolutionary novel, created as a kind of art that serves the Castro’s Regime, and describes the disenchantment of a generation who has a nostalgic image from the past.