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José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision : A Study of Paradiso and Other Prose Works /

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...

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Autor principal: Pellón, Gustavo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Translations
  • 1. Introduction: Beyond the Aesthetics of Realism
  • 2. The Aesthetics of Excess: The Novel as Fibroma
  • 3. The Ethics of Androgyny: A Sexual Parable
  • 4. Culture as Nature: An American Practice of Reading and Writing
  • 5. Textual Epiphany: A Return to Bibliomancy
  • 6. Conclusion: The Henri Rousseau of the Latin American Boom
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index