Talking all the time and telling jokes or gossiping all the time and always and also philosophizing or aestheticizing or moralizing, but always: the thing was to make it look like we didn’t have to work because in Havana, Cuba, this is the only way to be high society. . .
Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
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Birth: | 22nd April, 1929 |
Death: | 21st February, 2005 |
Nationality: | Cuban |
Profession: | Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Screenwriter, Translator |
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín. A one-time supporter of the Castro regime, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965. He is best known for the novel Tres Tristes Tigres, which has been compared favorably to James Joyce's Ulysses.
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