Firefly
By: Severo Sarduy ; translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried
Contributors: Fried, Mark
Edition: 1st Archipelago Books ed.
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781935744641
Subjects: Cross-dressers; Gender identity; Fiction
Work titles: Cocuyo
Description: For the first time in English, Severo Sarduy's most autobiographical work, centered on two transvestites who undergo oppositional sexual surgeries (one is castrated, the other is given a new member). This convention-defying, scatological, and very funny novel is a paradise of words, "paradisic by plenitude" (Roland Barthes).
Notes: Translated from the Spanish of: Cocuyo.