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Told in breathless and lyrical prose, the novel is a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of Cuba's isolation in the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49968178561297,"sku":"CIN193574464XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53371281670417,"sku":"CIN193574464XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/193574464X.jpg?v=1751347838"},{"product_id":"cobra-book-severo-sarduy-9781564780768","title":"Cobra","description":"The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and here bound back to back are his two finest creations. Cobra (1972) recounts the tale of a transvestite named Cobra, star of the Lyrical Theater of the Dolls, whose obsession is to transform his\/her body. She is assisted in her metamorphosis by the Madam and Pup, Cobra’s dwarfish double. They too change shape, through the violent ceremonies of a motorcycle gang, into a sect of Tibetan lamas seeking to revive Tantric Buddhism.  Maitreya (1978) continues the theme of metamorphosis, this time in the person of Luis Leng, a humble Cuban-Chinese cook, who becomes a reincarnation of Buddha. Through Leng, Sarduy traces the metamorphosis of two hitherto incomparable societies, Tibet at the moment of the Chinese invasion, and Cuba at the moment of revolution. Transgressing genres and genders, reveling in literal and figurative transvestism, these two novels are among the most daring achievements of postmodern Latin American fiction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50286329331985,"sku":"GOR010786612","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50640809230609,"sku":"CIN1564780767G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038224318737,"sku":"NIN9781564780768","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52402326241553,"sku":"NLS9781564780768","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1564780767.jpg?v=1755498378"},{"product_id":"beach-birds-book-severo-sarduy-9780975592489","title":"Beach Birds","description":"Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Carol Maier. In his lifetime Severo Sarduy was best known for his exquistely wrought neo-baroque prose, but he was also an abstract painter and wrote plays and poetry in addition to fiction and essays. He abandoned medical school as a young man to pursue the world of art and literature, leaving his native Cuba shortly after the Revolution in 1960. He later became associated with the Parisian literary scene of the 1960's and 70's and later became a French citizen. Of his work Bruce Benderson writes, Severo Sarduy was a baroque comedian and a callused workhorse in one.Each jewel-like sentence is structured with tawdry detail, only to unfold like a paper origami trick into new and more convoluted gesticulation, a new sacrilige.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50375038763281,"sku":"CIN0975592483G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0975592483.jpg?v=1751203809"},{"product_id":"epitafios-imitacion-aforismos-book-severo-sarduy-9780897296786","title":"Epitafios, Imitacion, Aforismos","description":"Severo Sarduy was born in Camaguey, Cuba, in 1937 and died in Paris, France, in 1993. Without a doubt, he was internationally recognized as one of the most important writers of his generation. Shortly before his death, he wrote and collected these poems that constitute a farewell full of humor for a death he knows is nearby. The book includes illustrations (black \u0026amp; white) by Cuban painter, Ramon Alejando. Also included are studies on the author and his literary work by professors Concepcion T. Alzola and Gladys Zaldivar.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009508213009,"sku":"NIN9780897296786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52333769982225,"sku":"NLS9780897296786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0897296788.jpg?v=1750884541"},{"product_id":"barroco-and-other-writings-book-severo-sarduy-9781503640573","title":"Barroco and Other Writings","description":"Severo Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque. While most of Sarduy's literary work is available in English, his theoretical writings have largely remained untranslated. This volume—presenting Sarduy's central theoretical contribution, Barroco (1974), alongside other related works—remedies that oversight.   Barroco marks a watershed in postwar thought on the Baroque, both in French post-structuralism and in the Latin American context. Sarduy traces a double history, reading events in the history of science alongside developments in the history of art, architecture, and literature. What emerges is a theory of the Baroque as decentering and displacement, as supplement and excess, a theory capacious enough to account for the old European Baroque as well as its queer, Latin American and global futures.   In addition to Barroco, this volume includes texts spanning Sarduy's career, from 1960s essays published originally in Tel Quel to late works from the 1980s and '90s. 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She is assisted in her metamorphosis by the Madam and Pup, Cobra's dwarfish double. They, too, change shape, through the violent ceremonies of a motorcycle gang, into a sect of Tibetan lamas seeking to revive Tantric Buddhism. In its spiraling series of transmutations, \u003ci\u003eCobra\u003c\/i\u003e constructs a labyrinthine voyage, a \"magical juggling act\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn its first edition from Dalkey Archive Press,\u003c\/span\u003e Cobra \u003cspan\u003ewas bound with Sarduy's novel\u003c\/span\u003e Maitreya \u003cspan\u003e(1978) which furthers the theme of metamorphosis. 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Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Cuban Studies. Translated by David Francis. Cuban writer Severo Sarduy was one of the most groundbreaking Latin American literary figures of the 20th-Century. His poems are acrobatic in content and form, innovative, and also part of a deep lineage and web of connection. David Francis translated the poems from Spanish into a gripping English. He writes, FOOTWORK is a body of work that sings on its own, that celebrates the carnal life, the sensual experiences of dance, of painting, food, music, and sexual pleasure, but that also recognizes--in these pleasures--the imminence of one's passing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Sarduy's novels have been translated into English and received praise from such writers as Roland Barthes, Richard Howard, and James McCourt, this is the first collection of his poetry to appear in English translation. 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