Summary
Plt;iPgt;FireflyPlt;/iPgt;P#160;is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world asP#160;a threatening conspiracy. Told inP#160;breathless and lyrical prose, the novel isP#160;a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of CubaP#8217;s isolation in the world.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935744641 |
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| ISBN-10: | 193574464X |
| Author: | Severo Sarduy |
| Publisher: | Archipelago Books |
| Imprint: | Archipelago Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 146mm x 165mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for Severo Sarduy’s Prix Médicis-winning Cobra
Sarduy is the master of wordscapes that dip, shake and explore. —New York Times Book Review
A paradise of words…a marbled iridescent text; we are gorged with language, like children who are never refused anything…Cobra is the pledge of continuous jubilation, The moment when by its very excess verbal pleasure chokes an reels into bliss. —Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
Sarduy rendered the epiphany of the body luminous, where the pleasure of void meets the furious fire of the world. —The Washington Post
Severe Sarduy has everything…so brilliant, so funny, and so bewilderingly apt in his borrowings, his derivations, as well as in his inventions, his findings, he leaves one breathless, like a shot of rum.—Richard Howard
Severo Sarduy
Severo Sarduy (1937-1993), Cuban poet, fiction writer, playwright, and literary critic, is considered one of the best prose artists of the twentieth century. In 1972, he was awarded the Prix MP#233;dicis for Plt;iPgt;CobraPlt;/iPgt;, one of his six highly acclaimed novels. Sarduy also painted, hosted a radio program, and, as an editor at Plt;iPgt;Editions du SeuilPlt;/iPgt;, introduced contemporary Latin American fiction to European readers. Sarduy was a leading intellectual in the early years of the Cuban Revolution. Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Mark FriedP#160;is the translator of Eduardo GaleanoP#8217;s Plt;iPgt;Children of the Days, Mirrors,P#160;Voices of Time, Upside Down, Soccer in Sun and Shadow,P#160;Walking WordsPlt;/iPgt;, and Plt;iPgt;We Say NoPlt;/iPgt;. He is also the translator of the historical collectionP#160;Plt;iPgt;Echoes of the Mexican-American WarPlt;/iPgt; and works by Emilia Ferreiro, JosP#233; Ignacio LP#243;pez Vigil, Oscar Ugarteche and Rafael Barajas DurP#225;n.
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