ABSTRACT- Cuba, specially through its narrative literature, demostrates always a very keen interest in the «guajiro». Glorified by the the creóle writers during the 19 th century as an ideal Cuban, the figure of this little white peasant has never ceased to arouse many a writer's fad ever since. Beyond the convergence of aesthetic tastes, the recurrence of this image actually reveals identitary intentions meant to maintain, even today, a national identity built around the representative of the creóle community.