Guillermo Cabrera Infante : assays, essays, and other arts / edited by Ardis L. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Ardis L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabrera Infante, G. (Guillermo), 1929-2005--Criticism and interpretation.

Cabrera Infante, G.

Cabrera Infante, G. (Guillermo), 1929-2005.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxv, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Twayne Publishers, [1999]

Summary:

Collection covers criticism on Cabrera Infante, the James Joyce of Cuban letters, ranging from his relationships to literary/cinematic fathers, to his uncanny ability to inspire literary creativity in others.

Contents:

The years at Bohemia and Carteles / Raymond D. Souza

Lunes de Revolución : literature and culture in the first years of the Cuban Revolution / William Luis

"Icosaedros" : the English letters / Carlos Cuadra

The cinematic imagination / Raymond D. Souza

Movies and mock encomia / Kenneth Hall

Life with the silver screen : Cine o sardina / Kenneth Hall

Literary friends at the movies : Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Manuel Puig / Suzanne Jill Levine

On Borges : the man who knew too much / Carlos Cuadra

The translator within : a conversation with Guillermo Cabrera Infante / Suzanne Jill Levine

Mea Cuba : critical readings from exile / Justo C. Ulloa and Leonor A. Ulloa

On Buñuel and surrealism : the art of audacity / Ardis L. Nelson

Up in smoke / Regina Janes

Mea Cuba : the "Proust-Valía" of history / Nedda G. de Anhalt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and index.

ISBN:

0805716440

OCLC:

40199995