Études publiées sous la direction de Francine Wild. ISBN : 978-2-84133-360-8.International audienceFor Cuban writer Antonio José Ponte, whose work is haunted by pregnant representations of Havana that oscillate between dream and nightmare, the world and its creatures only seem to exist in writing as they are refracted by the deepest "self' and filtered by its states of consciousness. Before choosing exile from Cuba in 2006, Antonio José Ponte had already chosen dissidence and opted for an interior form of exile - an "insile", or exile within oneself- which was translated by his obsessive evocation of a hallucinated Havana, gradually disintegrating into crumbling ruins. The city not only becomes a metaphor for political decline but also symb...