Paradiso (Coleccion Archivos) (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Lezama Lima José (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1994 | ISBN-10: 9505571917 | ISBN-13: 978-9505571918 | Edition: Ed. critica, 1. ed

Paradiso es, en principio, el viaje ritual que Dante Alighieri cumple en la Divina Comedia, al tener que descender a los infiernos para luego reaparecer dejando en prenda su luz en la oscuridad. Esto hace de Paradiso una obra auténticamente dentro de la tradición órfica. La edición crítica de esta obra fundamental de la literatura latinoamericana está coordinada por Cintio Vitier y participan en el análisis de la obra: Ciro Bianchi Ross, Raquel Carrió, Julio Ortega, Benito Pelegrín, Severo Sarduy, Justo C. Ulloa y María Zambrano, entre otros.

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Text: Spanish

About the Author

Born in Cuba in 1910, Lezama Lima was appointed director of the Department of Literature and Publications of the National Cultural Council and vice-president of the Cuban Artists and Writers Union after the Castro revolution. However, because of the books frank discussion of homosexuality (a taboo topic in Cuba), he was out-of-favor with the Castro regime after Paradiso's publication. He died in 1976. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 762 pages
• Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica; Ed. critica, 1. ed edition (January 1994)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 9505571917
• ISBN-13: 978-9505571918
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,524,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paradiso Jose Lezama Lima, June 18, 2008

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This review is from: Paradiso (Letras Hispánicas) (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Paradiso by Jósé lezama Lima is undoubtedly the most important literary work produced in Cuba in the 20th century.A poem.A tropical Remembrances of Things Past of Marcel Proust.Difficult to believe that such a work of art was produced in Havana in the 1960`s.

Superb reading.