Paradiso
By: José Lezama Lima ; translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Texas Pan American Series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Austin (Texas), USA
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Paradiso
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 466
Description: "A classic of modern literature, Paradiso was first published in Cuba in 1966. Written by Cuba's most important poet, it tells the story of Jose Cemi, who, in the wake of his father's death, comes of age in turn-of-the-century Cuba. Weaving the exhilarations and defeats of love into extraordinarily erotic verbal tapestries, Lezama Lima narrates Cemi's search for his dead father and for an understanding of love and the powers of the mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: First University of Texas Press edition.