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Ensayos generales sobre el Barroco

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El libro reúne por primera vez los cuatro libros que dedicó Severo Sarduy al tema del barroco americano: Nueva inestabilidad (1987), La simulación (1982), Barroco (1974) y Escrito sobre un cuerpo (1969). Punto de reunion del pensamiento del autor, este libro puede considerarse una suma: en definitiva, un texto imprescindible para acercarse a un espiritu provocador para el cual el "ser barroco" significa amenazar, juzgar y parodiar la economia burguesa.

323 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

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Severo Sarduy

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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, 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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Sarduy... és colossal.


«Perspectiva, tiempo, dinero: todo es medida, cantidad, repetición; todo es analizable, fragmentable: el cuerpo en órganos, la moral en casos, el comercio en operaciones de cálculo y contabilidad, el oro en monedas uniformemente calibradas y acuñadas, la tierra en Estados de fronteras precisas, la arquitectura en órdenes, la ciudad en unidades fragmentarias, reducibles a figuras geométricas: avenidas que avanzan, sin meandros, no importa hacia dónde; lo que cuenta son las series, el alineamiento obsesivo, la repetición de columnas y molduras, y hasta de hombres que, también idénticos, imperturbables, mecanizados, recorren las avenidas [...].» (p.181)

«El barroco funciona al vacío. [...] El lenguaje barroco: vuelta sobre sí, marca del propio reflejo, puesta en escena de la utilería; [...] niega toda unidad, toda naturalidad a un centro emisor: fingiendo nombrarlo, tacha lo que denota, anula: su sentido es la insistencia de su juego.» (p.175)
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