Further Reading
- Alvarez-Borland, Isabel. "La Habana para un Infante difunto: Cabrera Infante's Self Conscious Narrative." Hispania 68, No. 1 (March 1985): 44-48. (Provides a framework for understanding La Habana para un Infante difunto as a series of episodes that "oscillate … between [the narrator's] collective" and "individual" experiences.)
- Alvarez-Borland, Isabel. "Readers, Writers, and Interpreters in Cabrera Infante's Texts." World Literature Today 61, No. 4 (Autumn 1987): 553-58. (Describes Cabrera Infante's works published between 1964 and 1974, including View of Dawn in the Tropics, as "fictions of interpretation.")
- Feal, Rosemary Geisdorfer. "The Duchamp Effect: G. Cabrera Infante and Readymade Art." Criticism XXXI, No. 4 (Fall 1989): 401-20. (An examination of Exorcismos de esti(l)o, with an attempt to show similarities between Cabrera and the artist Marcel Duchamp with regard to their "attitude of indifference … toward 'high' art and literature….")
- Feal, Rosemary Geisdorfer. "Works Cited." In her Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa, No. 226, North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Chapel Hill: Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina, 1986, pp. 170-75. (An extensive bibliography of works about Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa.)
- Fox, Lorna Scott. "Castration." London Review of Books 16, No. 22 (24 November 1994): 22-23. (A review of Mea Cuba, as well as Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, which highlights ways that both writers dramatize tyranny under Castro.)
- Horne, Philip. "Wasps and All." London Review of Books 10, No. 22 (8 December 1988): 22. (In a review of View of Dawn in the Tropics Horne commends Cabrera Infante for keeping "the pun count … pretty low" and "doing justice to each sufferer" he depicts.)
- Janes, Regina. "Speaking with Authority." Salmagundi 100 (Fall 1993): 86-96. (Briefly discusses Cabrera Infante in a review of works by Edward Said, Conor Cruise O'Brien, and P. J. Marshall.)
- Janes, Regina. "Ta(l)king Liberties: On Guillermo Cabrera Infante." Salmagundi 82-83 (Spring/Summer 1989): 222-37. (Discusses Cabrera Infante's career, his opposition to Castro, two of his novels (Three Trapped Tigers and Infante's Inferno), and aspects of his personality.)
- Kadir, Djelal. "Stalking the Oxen of the Sun and Felling the Sacred Cows: Joyce's Ulysses and Cabrera Infante's Three Trapped Tigers." Latin American Literary Review IV, No. 8 (Spring/Summer 1976): 15-22. (Examines Three Trapped Tigers, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Homer's Odyssey* as works that embody "the Spirit of Literature" and put their readers to "the task of decoding accumulated stores of eclectic materials which often extend much further than the authors might have been aware.")
- Malcuzynski, M.-Pierrette. "Tres tristes tigres, or the Treacherous Play on Carnival." Ideologies & Literature III, No. 15 (January-March 1981): 33-56. (Applies theories of Mikhail Bakhtin on "carnivalization of literature" to a study of Tres tristes tigres in light of Cabrera Infante's anti-Communist political perspective.)
- Mitchell, Phyllis. "The Reel Against the Real: Cinema in the Novels of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Manuel Puig." Latin American Literary Review VI, No. 11 (Fall/Winter 1977): 22-29. (A discussion of Cabrera Infante and Puig as writers who, despite their differences in style, both owe a debt to the cinema for its influence on their work.)
- Perez, Gilberto. "It's a Wonderful Life." The Nation 256, No. 11 (4/11 January 1993): 24-28. (Perez, who teaches film and grew up in Havana, reviews several film books, including A Twentieth-Century Job.)
- Prieto, René. "A Womb with a View: Sex and the Movies." World Literature Today 61, No. 4 (Autumn 1987): 584-89. (An investigation of La Habana para un Infante difunto as a work which illustrates a particular relationship of literature, film, and the erotic as established by Roland Barthes and others.)
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