Letters

"Do not believe that the dead are dead; as long as there are living, the dead will live, the dead will live..."

from Vincent Van Gogh's A Life in Letters

Revueltas composed many letters to his wife, María Teresa Retes, throughout their lives together (collected in the book pictured below). These letters cover time spent on writing teams for film and theater; travels through the socialist regions of Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia during the '50s; his time spent in Cuba as film lecturer and militiaman; and finally his stint at Stanford as a guest lecturer. He and María divorced during his imprisonment at Lecumberri (early 1970s), though he still kept in close communication. He also actively wrote to friends and fellow activists in the Movement throughout his life (some of which are included in the Mexico 68 collection).