Guillermo Cabrera Infante : : Two Islands, Many Worlds / / Raymond D. Souza.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Souza, Raymond D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

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on wide-ranging interviews with the author and his family and friends, as well as extensive study of both published and unpublished works, Raymond D. Souza creates an intimate portrait of Cabrera Infante and the cultural and political milieus that shaped his writing, including Three Trapped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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A Distant Place -- 2. A Room Without a View -- 3. A Momentary Splendor -- 4. The Apprentice Storyteller -- 5. Citizen Gain -- 6. The Elusive Tiger -- 7. A Nocturnal Rhapsody -- 8. Lowry's Ghost -- 9. Images of History -- 10. The Vertigo of Memory -- 11. The Demonic Heart of Nature -- 12. The Essayistic Narrator -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index