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Language: en
Pages: 488
Authors: José Lezama Lima
Categories: Cuba
Type: BOOK - Published: 1974 - Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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
A Poetic Order of Excess: Essays on Poets and Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Jose Lezama Lima
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-24 - Publisher: Green Integer

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One of the most influential figures in Latin American literature, Cuban writer José Lezama Lima examines figures of world literature such as Stéphane Mallarm�
Gay Cuban Nation
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Emilio Bejel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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With Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political c
The Doorman
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Reinaldo Arenas
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Grove Press

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Arenas's first work set in the United States breaks new ground with the story of a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building. Odd
In Search of the Sacred Book
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Aníbal González
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-03 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin Am