![]() ![]() In Angola, the army captain compares Rauli to his wife during their sexual encounters. To other people, he is a chameleon whom they can change at will. Rauli never makes any effort to run from his fate like Achilles and Odysseus, Rauli believes in the gods’ absolute power. This is mentioned repeatedly without emotion or fanfare (“My Zeus, I know I will die at nineteen, very far away from Cienfuegos”). ![]() Like Cassandra, Rauli reportedly possesses the gift of telling the future and is convinced that he will die at nineteen, fighting in the Angolan Civil War. Moving between Cienfuegos, Cuba and Angola in the 1970s and eighties, Gala’s second novel translated into English follows Rauli, who believes he is the reincarnation of the Trojan priestess Cassandra. Marcial Gala’s “Call Me Cassandra” is a strange, dazzling novel that is as difficult to categorize as its protagonist. ![]()
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