Tres tristes tigres

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Tres tristes tigres is an experimental, linguistically playful Cuban novel by Guillermo Cabrera Infante that portrays Havana’s nightlife and culture on the eve of the revolution.

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instanceOf Cuban novel
experimental novel
novel
associatedWith Cuban Revolution
surface form: Cuban Revolution (historical context)
author Guillermo Cabrera Infante
countryOfOrigin Cuba
EnglishTitle Three Trapped Tigers
focusOn music and cabaret culture
vernacular speech
genre experimental literature
postmodern literature
hasForm novel-length work
hasTranslation English
hasTranslator Donald Gardner
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Suzanne Jill Levine NERFINISHED
languageStyle baroque prose
colloquial Cuban Spanish
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Latin American Boom
literarySignificance key text of the Latin American Boom
major work of Cuban literature
mainCharacters Havana bohemians
nightlife performers
narrativeFocus Cuban popular culture
Havana nightlife
notableCharacteristic fragmented narrative
heavy use of Cuban Spanish slang
intertextual references
linguistic experimentation
multiple narrative voices
use of puns
wordplay
originalLanguage Spanish
placeOfPublication Spain
publicationCentury 20th century
settingCountry Cuba
settingLocation Havana, Cuba
surface form: Havana
structure episodic composition
nonlinear narrative
theme cultural decadence
exile
identity
memory
political change
urban life
timePeriod eve of the Cuban Revolution
pre-revolutionary Cuba
titleOrigin Spanish tongue-twister "Tres tristes tigres"

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante notableWork Tres tristes tigres
Vista del amanecer en el trópico relatedWork Tres tristes tigres
Holy Smoke sharesStyleWith Tres tristes tigres