{"title":"Guilhermo Cabrera Infante","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"tres-tristes-tigres","title":"Three sad tigers","description":"In Three Sad Tigers, Guillermo Cabrera Infante celebrates the Cuban nightlife. The author offers a thought-provoking tour of the streets of the bohemian Las Rampas neighborhood, with its bars, cabarets, and music venues. The homage is evident at the beginning of the book, when the author warns: \"The cover of Three Sad Tigers (...) should display a banner with the following warning: Must be read at night.\" In this book, considered his masterpiece, Cabrera Infante takes a trip to the pre-revolutionary Cuban capital. Humor and fragmented narrative are constant elements in the novel, which recounts much of the author's memories as a young journalist. Three interesting and entertaining characters serve as guides through Havana's bustling nightlife. This work possesses several peculiarities. Orality, already highlighted in the title—a typical Cuban tongue twister—is one of them. The \"Cuban\" language used in the text demonstrates the author's intention to preserve the culture of his homeland. To some extent, this work can be understood as Cabrera Infante's reaction to the oppression that Fidel Castro's regime imposed on the joyful and festive Cuban people. Cabrera Infante belongs to the generation of Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Manuel Scorza, García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, among others. But his influences are diverse: Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Sterne, and Petrônio, which can be seen in his writings, which feature intertextuality as one of their main characteristics. The author left Cuba in the 1960s because he opposed Fidel Castro's regime. During his transition to exile, he served the revolutionary government as a cultural attaché in Belgium from 1962 to 1965, the year in which he settled in exile in London. In the English capital, he wrote Three Sad Tigers in 1968. It was during this period that he became a staunch critic of Fidel Castro's regime. In the early 1970s, the Cuban writer moved to Hollywood, where he achieved relative success as a screenwriter. He was honored with the Cervantes Prize in 1997 and passed away in 2005 in the English capital.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176902902012,"sku":"9788503009423","price":99.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/fc74eda7a6272b6d5f0d7f7634014a67.jpg?v=1778322344"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/guilhermo-cabrera-infante.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}