Paradiso
By: Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York (New York), USA
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Paradiso
Format: Hardcover
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.