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Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and screenwriter known for his witty linguistic style and exploration of Havana’s culture. A central figure of the Latin American Boom, he lived in exile in London after breaking with the Castro regime and received the Cervantes Prize in 1997.
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Three Trapped Tigers
An experimental novel first published in 1967, 'Three Trapped Tigers' captures the vibrant nightlife of pre-revolutionary Havana. Through playful language, word games, and multiple narrative voices, Cabrera Infante explores Cuban identity, memory, and popular culture. The work is considered one of the most innovative novels in twentieth-century Latin American literature.
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The City as the True Protagonist
I have always said that Havana in the 1950s was more than a location; it was a temperament. In *Three Trapped Tigers*, I began not with a story but with an atmosphere—the nocturnal pulse of a city inventing itself nightly. The novel opens like a song, each voice entering with its own pitch and tempo...
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The Trio: Silvestre, Arsenio Cué, and Códac
Silvestre is the archetype of the writer intoxicated by his own irony, always on the verge of turning life into literature. Arsenio Cué, with his effortless charisma and improvisational genius, represents the musician’s faith in rhythm as salvation. Then comes Códac, the observer, whose nickname alo...
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and screenwriter known for his witty linguistic style and exploration of Havana’s culture. A central figure of the Latin American Boom, he lived in exile in London after breaking with the Castro regime and received the Cervantes P...
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and screenwriter known for his witty linguistic style and exploration of Havana’s culture. A central figure of the Latin American Boom, he lived in exile in London after breaking with the Castro regime and received the Cervantes P...
Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and screenwriter known for his witty linguistic style and exploration of Havana’s culture. A central figure of the Latin American Boom, he lived in exile in London after breaking with the Castro regime and received the Cervantes Prize in 1997.
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