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Guillermo Cabrera InfanteAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: cuban
- Born: April 22, 1929
- Died: February 21, 2005
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(yesterday)From the terrace of the Flore, I see a woman sitting on the windowsill of the bookstore La Hune; she is holding a glass in one hand, apparently bored; the whole room behind her is filled with men, their backs to me. A cocktail party. May cocktails. A sad, depressing sensation of a seasonal and social stereotype. What comes to my mind is that maman is no longer here and life, stupid life, continues.
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