Or maybe it's because the subject-the violent upheaval in Cuba when Fidel Castro and his rebels overthrew the Batista regime in the 1950s-simply demanded a certain degree of artistic brutality in order to tell the story. Perhaps this is because the artist is more mature, more confident. In my opinion, the writing in this novel is even stronger than it was in his magnificent TOMORROW THEY WILL KISS.
MIDNIGHT RUMBA must have taken a lot of "blood" to create. In an interview, when asked how he writes, Santiago replied, ".basically I just cut open a vein and I write until I'm out of blood." His writing is graceful, sensuous and passionate, like the rumba itself.
That Eduardo Santiago was drawn to that dance is no surprise. If you can think of anything more graceful, more passionate than than that wild, exotic dance called the rumba-tell me, quickly, what it is.
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