UN OFICIO DEL SIGLO VEINTE: Selección, notas, prólogo y epílogo de Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Diseño de Raúl Martinez, Dibujos de Sergio y R.M.

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527 pp. First edition; first printing; text in Spanish. Binding tight; wrappers pristine; internally clean with no underlining, highlighting, or marginalia. Some pages at back subtly creased otherwise a near fine copy of a rare book which is enclosed in a unique custom made clam-shell box in the form of a 16mm film camera. See additional images provided. From 1954 to 1960 Cabrera Infante wrote film reviews for the magazine Carteles, using the pseudonym G. Caín; he became its editor in chief, still pseudonymously, in 1957. This book is a collection of those film reviews published between 1954-1962. With the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 he was named director of the Cuban Instituto del Cine. He was also head of the literary magazine Lunes de Revolución, a supplement to the Communist newspaper Revolución; however, this supplement was prohibited in 1961 by Fidel Castro. Having fallen somewhat out of favor with the Castro regime (the government's ban on a documentary on Havana nightlife made by his brother led to his being forbidden to publish in Cuba), he served from 1962 to 1965 in Brussels, Belgium, as a cultural attaché. During this time, his sentiments turned against the Castro regime; after returning to Cuba for his mother's funeral in 1965, he went into exile, first in Madrid, then in London. He died in London in 2005. Size: 20 x 14 cm. N° de ref. del artículo 5441

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