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Nivia montenegro pomona college in claremont, california. Although he lived in exile from his native cuba from the mid1960s onward. In 1998 he was awarded spains cervantes prize, the most prestigious and remunerative award for. A onetime supporter of the castro regime, cabrera infante went into exile to london in 1965. Three trapped tigers, paperback by cabrera infante, guillermo. That pervasive historical anonymity implicit in myth and its derivative literature is an earmark of ulysses and three trapped tigers.
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With three trapped tigers cabrera infante enters the front rank of latin american novelists. Censorship and selftranslation in the era of the latin. This magnificent text is not entirely a novel, nor a collection of short stories, the author himself defining it as a free book, representing his own. Cabrera infante is probably the most forgotten literary member of the latinamericanliterary boom.
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