Paradiso...a Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paradiso...a Novel write by José Lezama Lima. This book was released on 1974. Paradiso...a Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of his father's premature death, Jose Cemi comes of age in a turn of the century Cuba described in the Washington Post as "an island paradise where magic and philosophy twist the lives of the old Cuban bourgeoisie into extravagant wonderful shapes." Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Jose Lezama Lima
Jose Lezama Lima - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jose Lezama Lima write by José Lezama Lima. This book was released on 2023-11-15. Jose Lezama Lima available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recognized as one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth century, José Lezama Lima, born in Cuba in 1910, is associated with the Latin American neo-baroque and has influenced several generations of writers in and out of Cuba, including such prominent poets as Severo Sarduy and Néstor Perlongher. Lezama Lima's vision of America in a continental sense stands at the fertile confluence of indigenous, African, and European influences. A crucial experimental writer, he has been known in English chiefly for his novel Paradiso, while little of his poetry has been translated. This anthology is a comprehensive introduction to Lezama Lima's poetry. It presents for the first time in English a generous selection of his poems, as well as an interview, essays, and critical work on his poetics. Ernesto Livon-Grosman has selected elegant and precise translations by James Irby, G.J. Racz, Nathaniel Tarn, and Roberto Tejada. His insightful introduction places the poet in the wider context of Cuban and Latin American cultural history.
José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision
José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision write by Gustavo Pellón. This book was released on 2014-08-27. José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cuba’s José Lezama Lima became the most controversial figure in the flowering of the Latin American novel with the 1966 publication of Paradiso. Hailed as a seminal writer of breathtaking originality by Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Lezama was also attacked by the Castro regime and others for his stylistic obscurity, erotic descriptions, and violation of literary norms. Indeed, his experimental fiction, written on the very boundaries of the novelistic genre, resists classification. José Lezama Lima’s Joyful Vision, a much-needed critical study of Paradiso, Oppiano Licario, and Lezama’s essays, is thus an exploration in reading, one that highlights and preserves the essential and persistent contradictions in Lezama’s theory and practice of literature. Gustavo Pellón focuses his study on Lezama’s search for equilibrium, clarifying such oppositions in Lezama’s writings as the mystical quest for illumination through obscurity, the calculated cultivation of naïveté, the Proust-like fascination with yet ultimate condemnation of homosexuality, and a modernist (even postmodernist) narrative style that conveys a mystical (essentially medieval) worldview. Above all, Pellón shares his wonder at Lezama who, in an age of pessimism, maintained his joyful vision of art and existence.
A Poetic Order of Excess: Essays on Poets and Poetry
A Poetic Order of Excess: Essays on Poets and Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Poetic Order of Excess: Essays on Poets and Poetry write by Jose Lezama Lima. This book was released on 2019-09-24. A Poetic Order of Excess: Essays on Poets and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most influential figures in Latin American literature, Cuban writer José Lezama Lima examines figures of world literature such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, and Luis de Góngora. His own poetry and his essays on poetics are included at the end of the book.
Gay Cuban Nation
Gay Cuban Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gay Cuban Nation write by Emilio Bejel. This book was released on 2001-09. Gay Cuban Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, he maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which nationalism and other institutions of power struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Achy Obejas, Sonia Rivera-Valdés, and Reinaldo Arenas, Gay Cuban Nation shows ultimately that the specter of homosexuality is always lurking in the shadows of nationalist discourse.
