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Three Trapped Tigers
Published in Paperback by Marlowe & Company (1997)
Authors: G. Cabrera Infante, G.Cabrera Infante, Donald Gardner, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Guillermo Cabrena Infante
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Amazing book
To say it shortly, this is one of the best 10 books I have ever read (and I have read plenty of books). Please do not pass away without having read TTT.

Cabrera Infante was a wonderful surprise for me 15 years ago
I discovered Cabrera Infante's Tres Tristes Tigres (in Spanish) about 15 years ago and was so blown away that I searched for a copy in English so I could share it with my non Spanish speaking friends. I read the English version as well so I would know what I was recommending since I did not know how well it would translate, and found another book, equally funny--I believe he and a graduate assistant did the translation. Infante has an incredible way with language. It is certainly true that he should be read aloud. He painted an intriguing picture of a Havana which was probably almost as much a dream to him by that time as it was to me. I am buying this book today to give to a friend who introduced me to Felipe Alfau's Locos. I hope he will enjoy it as much as I have. Tres Tristes Tigres remains one of my favorite books.

Astounding to say the least
Infante has written a masterpiece. This book covers ( and plays on ) the styles of so many popular writers that it boggles the mind. On top of that the TRANSLATED version plays with the english language in a way that would make James Joyce proud,and maybe a wee bit jealous (and in all possibility giving the translator a nervous break down). Easily one of the best books I have ever read.


Mea Cuba
Published in Paperback by Ediciones Alfaguara, S.A. (15 July, 1998)
Authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Cabrena Infante, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Mea Cuba or the World's Guilt
In this book Cabrera Infante takes us by the hand through the history of Cuba, past and present, in a masterful way. As a growing teenager in Cuba myself in the sixties, I can "see" again all that happened in the beautiful island-archipelago from a richer, most understandable perspective than when I was there and saw things take place, but did not fully understand them: The witchhunt against all intellectuals who dared "think" what was not sanctioned by the totalitarian state and its main disease: Castroenteritis ! The repression against "hippies", "Beatle Lovers", homosexuals, singers and anyone who could challenge the Caribbean Nazi-Stalinism. (It made me remember my "underground" listening to the Beatles!).
An excellent, deep analysis of causes and consequences, of life in internal and external exile and very sharp chronicles about the lives of poets, writers, politicians and "men with many exes decorations", i.e. exminister, exambassador, exrevolutionary, experson, etc. Incredibly good use of the Spanish language, worthy of the prize Cabrera Infante recently earned: The Cervantes Prize of the Spanish language! I highly recommend this book for lovers of true history and of the Spanish language!

Castro no es Infante
El Autor de Tres Tristes Tigres nos ofrece una visión distinta del fenómeno Castro (un cubano que ama su patria y escribe contra su líder). Un libro que denuncia algunos de los atropellos que el "presidente" cubano perpetra contra los mismos cubanos. Una compilación de textos escritos a lo largo de los varios años que G.C.I. vive en su autoexilio, con la calidad y el humor al que nos tiene acostumbrados. La marca indeleble de Caín en el juego de palabras y en su estilo erudito, no se extrañan en Mea Cuba, una obra que expone los sentimientos más íntimos del autor frente a la Isla Caribeña que lo vió nacer. Aspectos de la Revolución (la mayúscula es de Guillermo)que se entrepapelaron en la historia, sus actores, el arte cubano y el pensamiento de Castro, vistos todos desde la ventana pineal de Cabrera Infante.


Tres Tristes Tigres
Published in Paperback by Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. (01 January, 1998)
Authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Guillermo Cabrena Infante
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ella cantaba boleros
Tres Tristes Tigres G. Cabrera Infante

La noche, esa que siempre vuelve y nos envuelve con su encanto y sus canciones, con sus bares y sus cantantes noctívagos, con los habitantes noctámbulos que aun siendo los mismos son siempre diferentes a los del día. Esos seres que al final de la noche mueren o quedan postrados en la cama esperando que el día siga su curso y de paso a la noche...
Cualquier aproximación temática a esta gran obra nos traería como respuesta que su tema es la noche y sus habitantes. Algunos quizás objeten esta obra diciendo que es obtusa, pero dentro de toda esa maraña de 454 paginas se extiende un universo de por sí, algo totalmente entendible, moldeable, maleable, perfecto, encerrado en sí mismo y como todo lo bueno, algo loco. El libro avanza y retrocede con referencias a personajes tan cercanos como Shame Joyce o tan lejanos como Alejandro el Glande. Unos muchachos metafísicos, hombres de la antimateria, nos conducen por pasajes filosóficos a través de la Habana a 100 kilómetros por hora dejándonos el sabor de salitre, el sabor del sastre Sartre cociéndome las costuras rotas del alma en la que no cree. Y esa nada que me invade, ya que soy nada, y si ella me invade, me demuestra que soy nada y que pronto, después de demostrar que era nada, volveré a la nada de donde vine. Y el absolutismo de los números y las cábalas?

4 9 2
3 5 7
8 1 6
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15

Y siempre, no importa como lo sumes siempre será 15 de arriba abajo y de derecha a izquierda o incluso de forma transversal. Y sabiendo que la vida es más grande que todo esto, que la vida contiene los números que creamos, los dioses a quienes les damos vida, las filosofías que nos sustentan, y las ciencias que nos educan, siempre cede el hombre ante el impulso de dejarse llevar por un credo que limita su libertad en detrimento de su creatividad. Es por eso que me gusto esta obra, es fresca, interesante, creativa, no se deja arrastra por ningún tipo de idea y critica casi todo.
Y las ideas de bustrófedon acerca del lenguaje?
Los safaris semánticos y los eternos juegos de palabras que hacen a uno envidiar no tener un amigo así. Andar en la compañía de alguien para quien el lenguaje no es meramente comunicar ideas que a veces son erróneas o tontas, sino que ve el lenguaje como un mero juego que a veces tomamos muy en serio. Alguien que transmite y transmuta las palabras a otros seres que también las reciben con beneplácito, bene, molto bene. ¿Quién no leerá en los escritos de teselio y quien no oirá la música de vincent Bongo, o leerá las obras de chasepear o de Jean Paul Sastre?
La vida es + y +, siempre + y no debemos dejar que una sola obra nos envuelva y nos haga seguidora de su credo de palabras. Debemos amarla mientras dure su lectura, como ama el marinero a la chica del puerto, sabiendo que mañana levantara las velas la embarcación y ya no volverá a verla, pero le esperan otros puertos, a quien quizás querrá +, por el momento.

Luis Méndez.

Monumental tongue and mind-twister
"Tres tristes tigres," a Spanish tongue-twister, is the title of Cabrera-Infante's anti-novel, and as this book's title suggests, what lies between the book's covers is nothing short of a never-ending mental-linguistic twister of epic proportions. The book grabs the reader on page one and takes him on a linguistic roller-coaster, a mental labyrinth, and a chaos of events at once discrete but united, as music might be both cacophonous and melodious. And all of this with Havana's nightlife as the backdrop. Don't look for a plot: there is none. But what there is is a rendering of words and language in a format never before seen, nor seen since. Cabrera-Infante's work will confuse; entertain; at times it may even bore you, but in its entirety you can see the man's genius. Once you put the book down you will realize that language--what distinguishes us from animals--is nothing more than ink on paper; sounds from mouths; misinterpretations, reinterpretations, random, chaotic inventions that we--just like he--can use for our own purposes. In the end, maybe we can't trust our ears. Or in this case, our eyes.


Arcadia Todas Las Noches
Published in Paperback by Ediciones Alfaguara, S.A. (01 January, 1995)
Authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Cabrena Infante, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Muy bueno
Se trata en muy pocas palabras, del libro que me enseño a ver cine de otra forma, de la forma en que realmente se aprecia, es decir, no tratando deinterpretar cada escena sino simplemente, relajarse y disfrutar.


Asi En LA Paz Como En LA Guerra
Published in Paperback by Diana/Mexico (1988)
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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no me mostro nada
quiero ver el libro asi en la guerra como en la paz


Cabrera Infante in the Menippean Tradition (Juan De LA Cuesta Hispanic Monographs)
Published in Hardcover by Juan de la Cuesta (1983)
Author: Ardis L. Nelson
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A must for any student of Cabrera Infante's work.
Dr. Nelson's grasp of the complexities of the satiric tradition and how Infante's work reflects and builds on this tradition, make her critical monograph a classic for the study of Infante's work.


Infante's Inferno
Published in Paperback by Marlowe & Co (1998)
Authors: G. Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Cabrera-Infante, and Guillermo Cabrena Infante
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Brilliant, wonderful and hilarious
The greatest living Cuban writer, and one of the most important in all Latin America, Cabrera Infante's "Infante's Inferno," the English version of "La Habana para un Infante Difunto" is a wise, brilliant, wonderful and hilarious musing of a young man's coming of age in pre-Revolutionary Havana. A rich, delicious work to be savored like a mojito or your mother's caramel custard (flan, assuming your mother knows how to make one). Although grounded in a very specific time and place, Cabrera Infante writes for the ages, a tropical Dickens, only funnier and scabrous. After all, there are few things more important in life than women and movies.


LA Habana Para UN Infante Difunto/Havana for a Dead Prince
Published in Paperback by Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A. (1986)
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Cabrera Infante y sus memorias eróticas
Un estupendo libro en el que el escritor cubano Cabrera Infante hace un larguísimo repaso de sus experiencias con las mujeres en la Habana, desde la niñez hasta la juventud. Muchísimo humor, acrobacias lingüísticas, erotismo y una impresionante colección de caracteres femeninos de todo tipo, además de ser un libro sin ninguna carga intelectual o intelectualoide. Silvio Rodríguez decía que los amores cobardes no llegan a historias. Con este libro, Cabrera Infante prueba que todos los amores, ya sean cobardes, valientes, frustrados o nonatos pueden llegar a ser estupendos relatos.


View of Dawn in the Tropics
Published in Hardcover by HarperCollins (1978)
Author: Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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A warped history lesson
A cracked, tragic, wickedly funny overview of Cuban history, this is not quite a novel, nor a short-story collection, nor a series of prose-poems... I'm not certain what to make of it, really. The book is composed of a series of brief vignettes, ranging from exactly one sentence to several pages, which essentially act as snapshots of various incidents in Cuban history. It takes in every era of "that long, sad, unfortunate island" and includes along the way an awful lot of tyranny, warfare, and bloodshed, which the author seems to think constitutes the spine of his native land's history.

All of this may not sound like your idea of fun, and I'll admit that the book sometimes lapses into a monotonous litany of executions and similar nastiness. But G. Cabrera Infante is a genuinely funny guy, who can put more pitch-black humor in one page than an Evelyn Waugh can pack into fifty. Some of the episodes here are little masterpieces of concision. The author puts forth his rancorous vision with impressive skill, which makes this book worth reading.


Vista del Amanecer En El Tropico
Published in Paperback by Galaxia Gutenberg (1999)
Authors: Frederic Amat and Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Tres siglos de tiranía en Cuba
Esta novela es una historia de la lucha de los humidles en Cuba contra la tiranía que ha existido por más que tres siglos. Esta obra corta dice la historia violenta y triste de indigenas, esclavos, campesionos y pobrecitos en cuentitos de un página o menos.Cada cuento corto es más o menos de la misma tema. Dan un buena pintura de un aspecto central y horrible de la vida cubano.


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