Cabrera Infante in the Menippean Tradition

Alvarez-Borland, Isabel; Nelson, Ardis L.

doi:10.2307/29739858

Chasqui

1983

DOI: 10.2307/29739858

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Cabrera Infante in the Menippean Tradition

Isabel Alvarez-Borland¹,

Ardis L. Nelson²

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Viewing History through Exile: Music and Nostalgia in Cabrera Infante's <em>The Lost City</em>

Barreneche¹

2007

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In 2006, exiled Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante's lifelong dream of bringing the world of pre-Revolutionary Havana nighdife to the silver screen was finally realized in the Andy García film The Lost City. The last work before his death in 2005, The Lost City represents a filmic versión of a world about to end: the culture and music of Cuba before the triumph of the Revolution and the subsequent exile of hundreds of thousands of Cubans. There are striking points of contact between one of Cabrera Infante's first works, the acclaimed 1967 experimental novel Tres tristes tigres, and The Lost City, his swan song screenplay 16 years in the making, as well as significant points of divergence between the film and his 1974 work Vista del amanecer en el trópico. Through an analysis of the use and function of music and nostalgia in these three works, this paper will consider how Cabrera Infante's re-creation of revolutionary Cuba in The Lost City reflects, on the one hand, a stylized and musical world in the spirit of Tres tristes tigres, but on the other hand, a narrow, Manichean visión of the historical events of the time that is not evident in his previous works. Through this analysis, one can conclude that screenwriter's nostalgic portrayal of Havana in The Lost City reveáis a marked shift in his perspective on exile and the events of the Cuban Revolution almost

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