by Guillermo Cabrera Infante · Punto de Lectura · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788466304986
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«Puro Humo» is Guillermo Cabrera Infante's essay on the history of tobacco, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (560 pages).
The book combines history and cultural chronicle: it starts with the discovery of tobacco in 1492 by the sailor Rodrigo de Jerez, celebrates the cigar, the cigarette and the pipe, and explores the relationship between the cigar and movies. Cabrera Infante says he wrote it to turn the cigar into smoke and ash, with Groucho Marx on the cover.
Work originally published in English as «Holy Smoke»; this Spanish edition is from 2004.
A read for cigar enthusiasts and those interested in the cultural history of tobacco, with attention to its presence in movies.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín, and used Guillermo Cain for the screenplay of the cult classic film Vanishing Point (1971).
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