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Sarduy, Severo

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ISBN 10: 193574464X ISBN 13: 9781935744641

Casa editrice: Archipelago, 2013

Riassunto

"Sarduy is the master of wordscapes that dip, shake, and explode."The New York Times Book Review

For the first time in English, Severo Sarduy's most autobiographical work, centered on two transvestites who undergo oppositional sexual surgeries (one is castrated, the other is given a new member). This convention-defying, scatological, and very funny novel is a paradise of words, "paradisic by plenitude" (Roland Barthes).

Severo Sarduy (19371993) was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and literary critic, as well as a leading intellectual in the Cuban Revolution. His novelCobra was awarded the Prix Médicis.

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Praise for Severo Sarduy's Prix Médicis-winning Cobra

Sarduy is the master of wordscapes that dip, shake and explore. —New York Times Book Review

A paradise of words...a marbled iridescent text; we are gorged with language, like children who are never refused anything...Cobra is the pledge of continuous jubilation, The moment when by its very excess verbal pleasure chokes an reels into bliss. —Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

Sarduy rendered the epiphany of the body luminous, where the pleasure of void meets the furious fire of the world. —The Washington Post

Severe Sarduy has everything...so brilliant, so funny, and so bewilderingly apt in his borrowings, his derivations, as well as in his inventions, his findings, he leaves one breathless, like a shot of rum.—Richard Howard

L'autore:

SEVERO SARDUY (1937-1993) was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and literary critic, considered one of the best prose artists of the twentieth century. In 1972, he was awarded the Medici Prize for his novel Cobra. He pursued a variety of interests: in addition to publishing six highly acclaimed novels, he published several volumes of poetry, essays, and plays. He also painted, hosted a radio program, and, as editor at Editions du Seuil, introduced contemporary Latin American fiction to European readers. He was a leading intellectual in the Cuban Revolution.

MARK FRIED is the translator of Eduardo Galeano’s Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, Voices of Time: A Life in Stories, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991, and Walking Words; and Emilia Ferreiro’s Past and Present of the Verb to Read and to Write: Essays on Literacy.

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• Editore: Archipelago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 193574464X
• ISBN 13: 9781935744641
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240