Paradiso...a Novel
Title | Paradiso...a Novel PDF eBook |
Author | José Lezama Lima |
Publisher | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 488 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Cuba |
ISBN |
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.
A Poetic Order of Excess: Essays on Poets and Poetry
Title | A Poetic Order of Excess: Essays on Poets and Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Jose Lezama Lima |
Publisher | Green Integer |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 2019-09-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781892295989 |
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.
Writing of the Formless
Title | Writing of the Formless PDF eBook |
Author | Jaime Rodríguez Matos |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 187 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9780823274123 |
This book proposes the "formless" as a way of thinking through the impasses of contemporary politics. The writing of the formless, as it can be traced in the work of Lezama Lima and the Cuban Revolution, is the point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time.
Gay Cuban Nation
Title | Gay Cuban Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Emilio Bejel |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2001-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226041743 |
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.
In Search of the Sacred Book
Title | In Search of the Sacred Book PDF eBook |
Author | Aníbal González |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0822983028 |
In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges's secularized "narrative theology" in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to "sacralize" the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the "desacralization" of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.
The Doorman
Title | The Doorman PDF eBook |
Author | Reinaldo Arenas |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780802134059 |
Arenas's first work set in the United States breaks new ground with the story of a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building. Oddly alienated from the tenants, he is seduced by their pets, who are determined to revolt against humans and human society.
Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture
Title | Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd Hughes Davies |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2020-06-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1786835762 |
This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national madness is explored with particular reference to Argentina: while, on the one hand, the country’s vast expanses have been seen as conducive to madness, the urban population of Buenos Aires, on the other, appears to be especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The book considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat, whose personal life is inflected by a form of literary madness, and that of larger literary figures such as José Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to the ‘other side’ of reason as a source of possible originality in a world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised thinking.