by José Lezama Lima · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422661788
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«Paradiso» is the novel by Cuban writer José Lezama Lima, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (633 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows José Cemí, a young poet in Havana, in his search for transcendence through art and love. Its baroque prose and dense symbolism explore identity, sexuality and artistic creation; the work is a classic of twentieth-century Cuban literature.
The novel was originally published in 1966. The 1997 edition belongs to the Maestros de la narrativa hispánica collection, with an introduction by Manuel Pereira and a biographical sketch by Alberto Cousté.
For readers interested in classics of Latin American literature who appreciate prose of great expressive richness.
José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Cuban and Latin American literature. His novel Paradiso is one of the most important works in Spanish and one of the best novels of the 20th Century according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
