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
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
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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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