Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada
This highly erotic, seemingly autobiographical novel by Cuban writer Valdes describes narrator Yocandra's series of relationships with allegorical characters?fraudulent writer Traitor, filmmaker Nihilist, aesthete Lynx, and the best friend Gusana ("worm"), a pejorative term for nonpatriots. As a wry, if not outright humorous, indictment of Castro's Cuba (the Nada, or "nothing," of the title), this portrayal of the bleak reality of quotidian life in his regime is offset by occasional intertextual references (Lezama Lima comes especially to mind). The fluid translation introduces English-speaking audiences to the first fruits of a highly imaginative writer.?Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC Lib., Dublin, OhioCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.