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Severo Sarduy (1937–1993)

Autor(a) de Firefly

33+ Works 350 Membros 15 Críticas 1 Favorited

About the Author

Sarduy has written primarily in exile and under the aegis of contemporary French intellectual and cultural movements. His essays are dense speculations about the complex structure of contemporary culture, a line of inquiry that forms the basis of his highly wrought fiction. He explores individuals mostrar mais and situations as the intersection of multiple levels of cultural formation enacted (unconsciously by the characters) in even the most menial actions and events. Stripped down to their narrative core, Sarduy's novels typically deal with the quotidian, but the quotidian figured in a richly textured language that is as difficult to read as his cultural formations are to understand. Moreover, Sarduy has been especially audacious both in depicting taboo (panerotic sexualism, homosexuality, transvestism, and transgressive "gender bending" in general) and in demonstrating taboo's irrelevance to daily life. In Sarduy's vision, the lines drawn between taboo and transgression, the conventional and the deviant, are not real. In one sense, Sarduy's writing is quintessentially Cuban in themes and tone, while at the same time one of the best examples of Latin American late modernism. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Severo Sarduy

Firefly (1990) 61 exemplares
Cobra and Maitreya: Two Novels (1995) 58 exemplares
De donde son los cantantes (1978) 50 exemplares
Christ on the Rue Jacob (1987) 27 exemplares
Written on a Body (1989) 20 exemplares
Obra completa (1999) 20 exemplares
Cobra (1972) 16 exemplares
Maitreya (1978) 14 exemplares
Colibri (1984) 11 exemplares
Beach Birds (2007) 9 exemplares
Barroco (1975) 8 exemplares
Barroco y el neobarroco, el (2011) 7 exemplares
Antología (Spanish Edition) (2000) 6 exemplares
Gestos (1973) 6 exemplares

Associated Works

Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent (1996) — Contribuidor — 85 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1937-02-25
Data de falecimento
1993-06-08
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Cuba
Local de nascimento
Camaguey, Cuba
Local de falecimento
Paris, France
Locais de residência
Camaguey, Cuba
Havana, Cuba
Paris, France
Prémios e menções honrosas
Medici Prize

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AICRAG | Apr 1, 2020 |
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Firefly is written with the command of an accomplished veteran poet, the perversity of a Marais district rent boy and the unflinching gaze of a child. It is a nightmare, a scandal, a hellish bildungsroman of that very strange baby, Severo Sarduy. He sees the world as a little boy but lives it as a corruptible old queen. He witnesses things no child should ever see or know. Eventually, he is brought into the mud, literally.

Severo Sarduy, Cuban poet, one of the first of the revolution's intellectuals and art critics, was one of its most prominent citizens to die of AIDS. He went to Europe in 1960, at age 23, on a revolutionary scholarship to study in Madrid. When Spain expelled its Cubans in 1961, he did not return home but instead went to Paris where he lived until his death in 1993. He was considered a traitor by the Cuban government during this time. He never returned home though he did travel throughout Europe and to Africa, India and the United States.

Cocuyo (Firefly) was Sarduy's last novel (1990) and was published around the time he was working for Gallimard. This also is the time he tested positive for HIV.

Cocuyo. It translates to “firefly.” One look at a photograph of Sarduy with his round head, prominent ears and big eyes tells it all. Not exactly a handsome man, his full lips suggest more a female sensualist. His sister relates that all of his aunts' names, on his father's side, begin with the letter "C".

Of course, one need not read too much of this work to realize that this cannot be an even remotely faithful memoir. This is not Bukowski, Fallada, Lawrence or even Joyce. The events in this account are far too outlandish and symbolic. Burroughs comes to mind but Sarduy’s prose is much more beautiful. You want a writer who always finds the right word? Sarduy’s your man.

This is a work for lovers of language, poetry and hysterically funny evil. Let it roll over you. But don’t believe too much.
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lacenaire | 12 outras críticas | Jan 12, 2014 |
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Sparkling, overwrought poetical prose. I truly wanted to love this book, based on the first few sentences and the jacket description. Unfortunately it was exhausting for me to read, and could not hold my attention. It felt like the surface (and the elegance of the writing) blocked access to real emotional or philosophical value. I will return to this book, perhaps, but not soon.
 
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the_darling_copilots | 12 outras críticas | Dec 4, 2013 |
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I was baffled by this book. I loved the style and I loved the writing, but the content was confusing and at times unpleasant. I'm not quite sure where the author was going or what he intended for his readers to get out of this book.
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cameling | 12 outras críticas | Apr 5, 2013 |

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Obras
33
Also by
1
Membros
350
Popularidade
#68,329
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
15
ISBN
52
Línguas
5
Marcado como favorito
1

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