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Al margen de su pruducción poética y narrativa, Severo Sarduy (Cuba, 1937-1993) escribió una gran cantidad de textos breves, dinámicos y brillantes que en su conjunto ofrecen una visión profunda de la vida y el quehacer literario de este autor cubano que viajó a París en 1993, sin volver jamás a su patria. Con un tono más íntimo y más revelador quizá que otras de sus obras literarias, estos escritos nos hablan de los tópicos y las fuentes que convergieron en el pensamiento de Sarduy, así como de la lectura que éste realizó del mundo y de sí mismo.
277 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2001
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Severo Sarduy
71 books58 followersSevero 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, iconoclastic and often grimly funny novels, works of a totally liberated imagination composed by a master of disciplined Spanish style. He encompassed the sublime and the ridiculous, mingling oral traditions with literary mannerisms adopted from his baroque masters.
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, iconoclastic and often grimly funny novels, works of a totally liberated imagination composed by a master of disciplined Spanish style. He encompassed the sublime and the ridiculous, mingling oral traditions with literary mannerisms adopted from his baroque masters.
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January 21, 2014
El libro es una recopilación de notas escritas por Sarduy principalmente para distintos periódicos y revistas francesas.Lo leí intercalado con otros lecturas y fue muy placentero no solo por su fino uso del lengua sino porque de alguna manera me hizo volver a Paradiso que hoy por hoy es el libro que más me revolotea en la cabeza. Lejos de todo acartonamiento o acamedicismo, Sarduy escribe crítica como a mi me gusta,a partir de una lectura activa transmite en su escritura ecos y resonancias de lo leído.
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