Bites from the Bearded Crocodile
G. Cabrera Infante, 4 June 1981
“... ballet dances à la Russe – in opposite steps to their prima ballerina assoluta. You cannot call Francis Picabia or Anaïs Nin Cuban. They merely happened to have been born on the island, but were later formed in France, where they made their reputation – whatever that is. They were as Cuban as Jose Maria de Heredia, who at the turn of the century ... ”
