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...surprising that only now, so long after he left Cuba, has Guillermo Cabrera Infante published Vista Del Amanecer en el Tropico, (View of Dawn in the Tropics), his denunciation of the Cuban Revolution. Surprisingly, because it took so long for such a beautiful damnation to arrive from the Cuban opposition and because despite the passage of time, this book is as bitter as though its writer had left the island yesterday. Cabrera Infante has been an opponent of the Cuban government since he left the island in the early sixties. Like many exiles, he supported Castro at the beginning...
...Vista del Amanecer, Cabrera's newest statement, published in 1974, is a grimly serious book, soaked with desperate humor. It is a collection of short pieces, difficult to define, few of them more than a page long, meditations on images in Cuban history. At worst they resemble Reader's Digest fillers, but at their best they are epiphanies. Each one presents a static image or a brief moment. To explain the colonial period, for example, they describe engravings: conquistadores meeting Indians, bloodhounds catching a runaway slave...
...clipped and limited range brings it up short of what it could have been. An intellectual document is still needed to remind us that revolutionary Cuba, whatever its great accomplishments in renovating its society, is not the "island of utopia" that some people say it is. So far, Vista del Amanecer en el Tropico is the best that has been written...
...February Harvard unveiled a plan to expand the Byzantine library by building beneath the North Vista terrace next to the main house. The architect, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, maintained that the plan would cause no permanent or substantial damage to the garden...
While Three Trapped Tigers is hilarious, Vista del Amanecer, published in 1974, is a grimly serious book, soaked with desperate humor. It is a collection of short pieces, meditations on images in Cuban history, few of them more than a page long. Each vignette presents a static scene or a brief incident. For the colonial period, they describe engravings: conquistadores meeting Indians, bloodhounds catching a runaway slave. For modern times, many of them comment on photographs: a revolutionary commander, terrorists dead in a ditch. At worst, these pieces resemble Reader's Digest fillers, but at their best they are epiphanies...