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."

Paradiso (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

José Lezama Lima

Literature & Fiction

Univ. of Texas Press

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."

Paradiso

Farrar, Srauss & Giroux

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.

Jose Lezama Lima: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)

Poetry

University of California Press

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.

Jose Lezama Lima: Selections (Poets for the Millennium, 4) (Volume 4)

History & Criticism

Inferno. Oppiano Licario

Ammann Verlag

Paradiso (Novedades) (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Era

El caracter de novela de Paradiso es solo una de las multiples facetas de esta asombrosa creacion de la literatura en lengua espanola. Obra de sintesis donde la exuberancia barroca, el hallazgo de un lenguaje erotico lleno de revelaciones, la sobrenaturaleza de una realidad magica, se orquestan en un crescendo que conduce al lector desde la autobiografia a la invencion de un sistema poetico del universo. Esta edicion aporta, ademas del texto definitivo, el valioso testimonio y estudio preliminar de la hermana del autor.

Paradiso (Letras Hispánicas) (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

Ediciones Cátedra

Oveja Negra

Paradiso (Narrativa nº 124) (Spanish Edition)

Linkgua

Martins Fontes - selo Martins

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