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Tres Tristes Tigres
Tres Tristes Tigres | Guillermo Cabrera Infantes
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Cabrera Infante aborda, de manera unica y brillante, varios de sus amores, de sus obsesiones, de sus temas: La Habana, el ingles, la literatura, la jerga de la cuidad, las habaneras, el cine, la musica y la "nostalgia de la noche"Ciertas novelas de horror y de intriga llevan la indicacion de que no deben leerse de noche. Tres tristes tigres tendria que llevar una banda sobre la cubierta que diga Debe leerse de noche, porque el libro es una celebracion de la noche.Esa noche insular urbana, habanera, es la protagonista de la novela y todas las noches quieren fundirse o se funden en la sola, larga, noche del libro, donde al final comienza a amanecer, lenta y reveladora. Y aunque Tres tristes tigres (el titulo viene de un trabalenguas infantil cubano) semeja una coleccion de camafeos (no de retratos) de Dorian Gray, sus personajes no son estos hombres y mujeres. Sus heroes son la melancolia, las letras, la ciudad, la musica y, a veces, esa forma actual de arte que parece reunirlas en una sola cosa: el cine. El unico villano es la traicion, pero no el delito humano, comprendido y perdonado, sino ese fatal crimen de lesa literatura que es la traduccion, y el libro termina en realidad con una inscripcion doblemente destacada: la palabra tradittori escrita en el sueno.
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Three Trapped Tigers | Guillermo Cabrena Infante
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Many many years ago, when I was obsessively reading Latin American literature, Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Three Trapped Tigers stood out as quite exceptional.
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Cinfhen I‘ll take your word for it 😂🐅👍🏻 6y
TrishB Looks challenging! 6y
Emilymdxn Stacked!! I‘ve been looking to read more South American literature recently, any particular recommendations?? One of my dads mates from university is a translator in Argentina and he just recommended me a pile but I‘m starting from almost zero 😱 6y
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rwmg If you haven't already read it, I can recommend this Venezuelan classic: 6y
vivastory @Emilymdxn Borges (especially Ficciones, Labyrinths, Book of Barely Imagined Beings), Julio Cortazar (especially his short stories & Hopscotch), Jose Donoso's The Obscene Bird of Night, Renaldo Arenas (Singing From the Well, The Assault, Before Night Falls), Roberto Bolano (Savage Detectives, Amulet, 2666) Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches) Felisberto Hernandez 6y
vivastory @Cinfhen @TrishB Infante has been described as the Cuban Joyce, but I actually found him to be a real pleasure to read. Although he tackled serious political issues, there's a lot of fun word play. 6y
batsy @vivastory @Emilymdxn I took a screenshot of your amazing recs 😆 6y
Liz_M I didn't enjoy reading this, but I bumped it a start because I was having fun tracking how many 1001 list books and authors he references 😁 6y
vivastory @Liz_M When did you first read the 1,001 list? 6y
Liz_M I found the 1001 list in 2007 and have been obsessively reading from it ever since. I read the tagged book in 2010, after finding it in my favorite used bookstore. 6y
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