José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision : : A Study of Paradiso and Other Prose Works / / Gustavo Pellón.
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 regim...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas Pan American Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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