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Guillermo Cabrera Infante and his wife, Miriam Gomez, as photographed for The Paris Review, 1983. Click HERE for interview.  ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Guillermo Cabrera Infante !  (1929-2005) A Cuban writer, screenwriter, and film critic who at first adamantly supported the Communist Revolution and Castro regime, Guillermo Cabrera Infante (who used the pseudonym G. Caín in the 1950s) went into exile in 1965 and became an outspoken critic of Castro and communism. Considered a member of the "Latin Boom" (alongside writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, and Carlos Fuentes), Cabrera nonetheless shunned this label. He was decidedly more libertarian than his contemporaries. As he explained in a 1983 Paris Review interview, which he gave when teaching at the University of Virginia as a guest professor, "Any literary work that aspires to the condition of art must forget politics, religion, and, ultimately, morals. Otherwise it will be a ...