Insolencia, exi(s)lio(s), punning: el exilio de Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Abstract

In this article, the author explores the literary representation of exile in Guillermo Cabrera Infante‘s novels and essays, through the various leit motive that express this theme, together with the circumstances that forced him into exile in 1965, after an outstanding participation in the Cuban Revolution‘s literary and intellectual circles. The author also relates these motive and themes with those codified by another exile, the classical Roman poet Ovid, and explores some traits that characterize not only the exile in general, but also the Cuban exile in particular, especially a profound nostalgia for the city of Havana and the "habanero", whose loss Cabrera Infante‘s works translate into literature.