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The figure of the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante has been ignored by the Cuban official culture for decades. The author initially collaborated with the Cuban revolution but in 1965 he broke with Fidel Castro’s regime and fled. A book about his intellectual work will now see the light on the island. A book about the intellectual work of the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), until now a literary figure ignored by official culture, became an editorial event with its presentation in the Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. Writers, intellectuals, artists crowded room Villena where young authors of the essay on the steps of the chronicler, Elizabeth Mirabal and Carlos Velazco, explained his decision to go to another time to discover an extraordinary writer and in particular his journalistic work on the island until 1965. Neither for nor against the text of more than 300 pages reviews the cultural movements involving the writer on the island, some of his journalistic articles and interviews with people who knew him in Cuba and abroad. It is not an allegation neither for nor against. Do not intend to claim it (Cabrera Infante), said Mirabal shortly before the release of the book based on the text prepared together to Velazco as thesis of journalism at the University of Havana who earned them in 2009 Premio UNEAC’s essay Enrique Jose Varona.! An essential author to Velazco the absence of this author, winner of the Cervantes literature prize in 1997, Cuban libraries is not either, but a fundamental copyright which is one of the most important language and is among the principal writers of this country, that always comes to us with a bit of mystery and for the account of others. At the end of the trial, its authors point out that today, the person who built himself as the terrible infant from Cuba reaches us fragmented. His story, like the story, only that which we can go armando by looking. In 1965 he broke with Castro Guillermo Cabrera Infante, one of the authors of the so-called Latin American boom, initially collaborated with the Cuban revolution but in 1965 he broke with Fidel Castro’s regime and went into exile. The news of his death in London was only informed on the island by a cultural magazine that lamented obsessive fan of writer against the revolution in a posture that led him, even, to prohibit the publication of their work in Cuba. For some time, there is some rrida literature the author in journals such as testimonials and essays, but a text dedicated entirely to Cabrera Infante had not seen the light so far. * You can buy the works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante in PopularLibros source of the news: Cuba rediscovers the writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante.