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Severo Sarduy

Born

in Camagüey, Cuba

February 25, 1937

Died

June 08, 1993

Genre

Poetry, Fiction

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Severo Sarduy was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art.

Sarduy became close friends with Roland Barthes, Philippe Sollers, and other writers connected with journal Tel Quel. His third novel, Cobra (1972), translated by Sollers won the Prix Medicis for a work of foreign literature in translation. In addition to his own writing, Sarduy edited, published and promoted the work of many other Spanish and Latin American authors first at Editions Seuil and then Editions Gallimard.

In Sarduy's 1993 obituary in The Independent, James Kirkup wrote, "Sarduy was a genius with words, one of the great contemporary stylists writing in Spanish. ... Sarduy will be remembered chiefly for his brilliant, unpredictable, iconocla ...more

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	Cobra by Severo Sarduy, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1972 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De donde son los cantantes by Severo Sarduy, Roberto González Echevarría (editor) 3.81 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1967 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cobra and Maitreya by Severo Sarduy, James McCourt (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Firefly by Severo Sarduy, Mark Fried (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pájaros de la playa 3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christ on the Rue Jacob 3.96 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Written on a Body by Severo Sarduy, Carol Maier (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ensayos generales sobre el Barroco 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La simulación 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1982	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maitreya by Severo Sarduy, Suzanne Jill Levine 3.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Severo Sarduy (?)

“Budismo

Que todo lo que vive, todo lo nacido o que va a nacer; que todo lo que respira (el gato Caruso, una hoja, tú voz, o el Rojo y naranja sobre fondo rojo de Mark Rothko); que todo lo que salta, roe, corre, trepa, clava, planea o viaja, que todo eso sea muy feliz.”
― Severo Sarduy , Antología

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“No supo qué deseaba más, si aparecer, cubierto de pústulas y encadenado, con los esclavos que iban a subir desde la cala, y al menos así cerciorarse de que no era dueño de su cuerpo ni de su destino o, al contrario, avanzar por los muelles hasta los arrecifes, donde rompe el oleaje vociferante y rugoso, y allí entregarse por entero al mar, al dejar de ser.
El género humano le apareció entonces, con el regreso revulsivo de esa escena que ya se veía obligado a atribuir a la realidad —y no, como era verosímil, al reguero de imágenes degradadas que aparecen en la resaca etílica-como una deyección irrecuperable, como un resto. Eso: el residuo, la ruina de un ser ideal tramado en los orígenes por algún dios iluso y a fin de cuentas reducido a este desparpajo de gestos, a esta suciedad esencial.”
― Severo Sarduy, Firefly

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“Todos traicionaban. Todo asqueaba. Pero en el fondo —se dijo— les quedaba agradecido: le habían mostrado el verdadero rostro del hombre, su esencial doblez, su necesidad, tan insoslayable como el hambre o la sed, de trampa, de mezquindad.
Ahora los sabía capaces de todo: de vender padre y madre, de entregar a la Inquisición y a la quema el ser que simulaban proteger. Capaces de felonía, de usura con los suyos. Capaces de mentir.
Se acostó boca abajo en el quejumbroso muelle.
Sacó la cabeza fuera del borde.
Para vomitar.”
― Severo Sarduy, Firefly

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