Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Debt to Ernest Hemingway

HE admiration that Guillermo Cabrera Infante feels for Ernest Hemingway is obvious in all of his literary work. Of course, the Cuban's regard for countless authors is clearly revealed in Tres tristes tigres with its hundreds of allusions, quotations, and parodies. In that masterwork, Hemingway is frequently present, but does not stand out because of the profusion of so many other writers, both known and obscure. Embedded in the novel, however, is hard evidence that Cabrera Infante knows the North American's

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