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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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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