Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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From the Publisher: Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.
Author: Raymond D. Souza
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029278578X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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A native Cuban who has lived in London since 1966, Guillermo Cabrera Infante is, in every sense, a multilingual and multicultural author. Equally at ease in both Spanish and English, he has distinguished himself with daring and innovative novels, essays, short stories, and film scripts written in both languages. His work has won major literary awards in France, Italy, and Spain, as well as a Guggenheim fellowship in the United States. This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with the author and his family and friends, as well as extensive study of both published and unpublished works, Raymond D. Souza creates an intimate portrait of Cabrera Infante and the cultural and political milieus that shaped his writing, including Three Trapped Tigers (Tres tristes tigres), View of Dawn in the Tropics (Vista del amanecer en el trópico), Infante's Inferno (La Habana para un Infante difunto), Holy Smoke, A Twentieth Century Job (Un oficio del siglo XX), Writes of Passage (Así en la paz como en la guerra), and Mea Cuba.
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671790
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Found in an envelope in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's house after his death in 2005, Map Drawn by a Spy is the world-renowned writer's autobiographical account of the last four months he spent in his country. In 1965, following his mother's death, Infante returns to Cuba from Brussels, where he is employed as a cultural attaché at the Cuban embassy. When a few days later his permission to return to Europe is revoked, Infante begins a period of suspicion, uncertainty, and disillusion. Unable to leave the country, denied access to party officials, yet still receiving checks for his work in Belgium, Infante discovers the reality of Cuba under Fidel Castro: imprisonment of homosexuals, silencing of writers, the closing of libraries and newspapers, and the consolidation of power. Both lucid and sincere, Map Drawn by a Spy is a moving portrayal of a fractured society and a writer's struggles to come to terms with his national identity.
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Guillermo Cabrena Infante
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374524467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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"Quirky, unpredictable, often hilarious, Infante's book tells us much about the effect of the Cuban revolution on Cuban literature." - Publishers Weekly With bitter irony, the author tells a story sadly repeated during this century. A dictatorship that silences the intellectuals, a regime that lies and kills, and a propaganda war that has yet to end. One of the best compilations of documents on recent Cuban history.
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Hidden behind a cloak of exotic mystery, Cuba is virtually unknown to American citizens. G. Cabrera Infante--in Infante's Inferno and several of his other novels--allows readers to peek behind the curtain surrounding this island and see the vibrant life that existed there before Fidel Castro's regime. Detailing the sexual education and adventures of the author, Infante's Inferno is a lush, erotic, funny book that provides readers with insight into what it was like to grow up in pre-revolutionary Havana. Viewing every girl as a potential lover, and the movies as a place both for entertainment and potential sexual escapades, Cabrera Infante captures the adolescent male mindset with a great deal of fun and self-consciousness. With his hallmark of puns and wordplay--excellently translated by Suzanne Jill Levine--Cabrera Infante has hilariously updated the Don Juan myth in a tropical setting.
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN:
Category : Film criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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This is the autobiography of G. Cabrera Infante, recognized as one of the most original Latin American writers. He has written novels, stories, critical essays, articles and screenplays and has lectured at universities from Cambridge to Chicago, and grew up in Cuba under the dictator Batista, knew Guevara and Fidel Castro personally and now lives in England as an exile. He is the author of Three Trapped Tigers, Infante's Inferno, Holy Smoke and View of Dawn in the Tropics.
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571169566
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Fifteen stories about Cuba by a writer whonotes in the prologue: "None, for sure went to jail forimitating Hemingway. I did."
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571151271
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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This is a fictional history of Cuba from the first inhabitants to the early 1970s. It is also a profoundly lyrical meditation on empire and history, a celebration of Cuba's extraordinary past, and a reflection on the nature of Caribbean society.
