Carlos Eire is the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. Have you been monitoring these developments? Because, in a prison, you know the exact setup. Product details Publisher : Yale University Press; 1st edition (June 28, 2016) Carlos Eiras - Carlos Eiras (12 June 1932 - 13 September 2013) was an Argentine alpine skier. And the only Catholic publication that reviewed it, Commonweal, the reviewer hated ithe thought the prose was completely overdone and stupid and wrong and God should have been smarter than to create me and to put me in the world. imperialism; the head of the Communist Partys ideological department has called the protests a type of nonconventional warfare waged by the U.S. to provoke the Cuban security forces into acts of repression. Is anybody listening to such rhetoric? Metaphor, if you want to think in Platonic or Augustinian terms, is a way of remembering the ideal or getting close to the ideal which is manifested through something lesser or other than itself. Eire will share the story of his exodus from Cuba. ", "They took us in, thinking they'd only have us for a few months when the Cuban missile crisis closed down everything. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. A child of eleven has no way of knowing that, or of believing it. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child's unforgettable experience. I would not have written that book without first writing Waiting for Snow. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. In the beginning was the Word and words are the way that the Word can be better understood and communicated. It's been cut down the middle, diagonally, and the square has been turned into two triangles. Carlos Aires - Carlos Aires (born 1974) is a Spanish artist. Even as a small child, the whole deal bothered me to no end: Eat or be eaten, and beware of serpents in paradise. Carlos Eire, in the clown costume, was photographed with his parents and brother, Tony, right, in Cuba in 1954. Very much so. But press forward. That sad truth is nothing works. I had to strangle the professor and just let the metaphors speak for themselves. CE:Yes, but this is where the parallel ends. Did you conceive of your work as being in the tradition of Augustine? My parents have always been extremely indulgent when it came to my food preferences. They will never admit failure and will blame everything on their enemy. I wanted to get as far away from Latin America and Cuba as possible in my professional career. When President Obama visited Cuba in 2016, the government shut them down, arresting their leaders and members. All rights reserved, Contact us: dana.lee@yale.edu, Phone: (203) 432-1366, Fax: (203) 432-7587, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health. Carlos Eire T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies carlos.eire@yale.edu Office: HQ 268 Phone: +1 (203) 432-1357 CV: carlos_eire_vita_21july.pdf Fields of interest: Early modern Europe; Intellectual, social, cultural & religious history; Protestant and Catholic Reformations Bio: And if you study the history of monasticism, you see its a, in case of Christian monasticism, almost 2000 of almost constant corruption and reform, corruption and reform. on February 14, 2022, There are no reviews yet. His mother would eventually join him a few years later, but never his father. You certainly are repressed; there is repression going on. It reminds me of the sandwiches served at my first communion reception, at the Havana Yacht Club, back when the world was still spinning in the right direction. . Its very scary and also very irritating because propaganda and indoctrination is so one-sided. CE: Thats right, and you cant question it. Having no freedom to express yourself is, I think, worse than being in a prison. Charles Dickens. This is like Orwells 1984: There has to be an enemy because the enemy makes repression necessary. I now know how tied to specific time and place images of hell and heaven are. Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba in 1962. BA:Complaints about a supposed current dearth of quality Catholic writing are common in Catholic media outlets that have an interest in literary culture. Focus 580; Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of A Cuban Boy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carlos_Eire&oldid=1086409305, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 6 May 2022, at 01:10. One of the most brutal dictators in modern history has just died.. But, it began even earlier than that. Another is Guillermo Cabrera Infante; another is Jorge Luis Borges. It allowed me not to fix my gaze on what I had lost but rather to be happy that I had lost," he says. Conservatives students need to work that out among themselves. Without thinking about it, without any reflection, this is one of the things I did. Hawkins Award for best book and the American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence of 2017. I actually had Mark Twain very much in mind as I was writing. Carlos Eire, who received his PhD from Yale in 1979, specializes in the social, intellectual, religious, and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, with a strong focus on both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the history of popular piety; and the history of death. The Lab-Leak Theory Was a Victim of Left-Wing Culture Wars Don't Let Trump Off the Obamacare Hook The. Carlos Eire is the author of "Waiting for Snow in Havana" and the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He used to go fishing for soulsthats what he would call it. It puts a whole different spin on things. BA:Which is also very much a sacramental view of the world. She came back to Madison Wisconsin and wrote her dissertation based on research and personal observations. Unfortunately, many on Yales campus today glorify far-left, Marxist ideology. BA:So much of the book is about particular details, particular little things. Here is a work of that mind winning the National Book Award. Even that way: them, usIm both. Bernardo Aparicio:At the beginning of hisConfessionsAugustine famously says to God: you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.Waiting for Snow in Havanais subtitled Confessions of a Cuban Boy. Bernardo Aparicio Garca is president of Dappled Things. So, no, Im the wrong type of person so I dont get that question very much, but people just assume if I say Im a Cuban exile, the assumption is made that Im the wrong kind of Cuban and wrong kind of person, and Im not very smart either. When I got the chair of Catholic studies at Yale, a colleague said, Why did they give you the Catholic chair? EWTN News, Inc. is the worlds largest Catholic news organization, comprised of television, radio, Press Esc to cancel. It was so totally odd that I would end up with a Jewish family. I left when I was 11, but even at that age I could tell something awful was going on. I very much identified with that. (laughs) But it goes much deeper than that. Carlos M. N. Eire is the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies, Yale University. It features a vast canvas of people, texts . That was in the early 1960s. They are universal in a sense that adults are not. CE:Very much so. I was readingTres Tristes Tigres, which has very different voices for every character in the book, but its very Cuban. He has sealed himself away in a luxury hotel in Windsor, west London, where he has a castle. But Ill tell you the difference between the first draft, which I sold, and the second draft, which is the book. CE:Oh yeah,The Moviegoeris in there too. His memoir of the Cuban Revolution, Waiting for Snow in Havana (Free Press, 2003), won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction[2] and has been translated into many languages. Eire's first memoir, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2003. . You arrived in the U.S. from Cuba at the age of 11, through the Pedro Pan airlift. Focando sempre em resultados e entregas bem feitas.". What the Cuban-American bishops say is important. He obtained his doctoral degree from Yale University in 1979.[1]. 7 distinct works Similar authors More books by Carlos Eire Quotes by Carlos Eire (?) The sandwich I've been served is very white. Among students from what I could see myself I was college student in late 60s, early 70s, everyone, absolutely everyone was liberal or pretended to be liberal. A lot of people have influenced me. And I immediately thought, few people were going to college and, you look, its a much smaller enrollment and fewer colleges. CE: Ive noticed that, but its an underground. I thought, whatever is going to be published, no one will know its me, because its going to be published as fictionwhen in fact I wasnt fictionalizing at all, except maybe when I tried to recreate conversations. web pages Fishing for souls. I felt terrible for her. They need this. Thats why I spend a considerable amount of time [in the book] going over the theme of attachment and detachment, which has always been a problem for Christians. Carlos Eire, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, has far more than a mere academic interest in the dramatic political developments now underway in Cuba. Carlos Eire was born in Havana, Cuba, on 23 November 1950. Of course, American colleges and universities were very different back then, they attracted a very different demographic profile. So if I joke about Jesus in a lighthearted way, its not out of irreverence, its out of the deepest possible reverence, hoping that in the same way as the Incarnationagainst reasonit might actually get the message across to someone who doesnt like Christianity. 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