Keywords

• Carlos Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is interested in the social
• intellectual
• religious
• and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe
• with a strong spotlight on both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
• the history of popular piety and the history of death. His memoir of the Cuban Revolution
• Waiting for Snow in Havana (which has been defined as «both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost»)
• despite having won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2003 and being translated into many languages
• is banned in Cuba. In this dialogue with Pasquale Palmieri
• he focuses on the relations between his biographical and historiographic works
• showing how his interests are strictly connected with the events of his childhood in Havana