The Artistic Worlds of Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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29 - The Artistic Worlds of Guillermo Cabrera Infante

from Part IV - The Revolution’s Literary-Cultural Initiatives and Their Early Discontents

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024

Isabel Alvarez Borland

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Vicky Unruh and

Jacqueline Loss

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Vicky Unruh: Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Jacqueline Loss: Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

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This chapter addresses the literary-artistic worlds marking the work of Cuban fiction writer, journalist, and film critic Guillermo Cabrera Infante, demonstrating first that the stories of cultural publications in the 1950s, like the longstanding Bohemia and Carteles, and of the new postrevolutionary initiative of the early 1960s, Lunes de Revolución, cannot be understood without tracing the key role Cabrera Infante played in them during these years. But, as the chapter details, Cabrera Infante’s own masterpieces, Tres tristes tigres (1967) and Vista del amanecer en el trópico (1974), are also more fully illuminated by pursuing such connections. In making these links, the chapter proposes that the convergences in Cabrera Infante’s journalism, cinema criticism, and fiction created a “poetics of the fragment” that embodied a privileging of ambiguity over didacticism in art.

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005)Cabrera Infante’s journalism Cabrera Infante’s film criticism Cabrera Infante’s “poetics of the fragment”Tres tristes tigres (1967)Vista del almanecer en el trópico (1974)

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Information: The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 454 - 468

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