Paradiso

work by Lezama Lima

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discussed in biography

  • Lezama Lima, José
    In José Lezama Lima

    ) His novel Paradiso (1966), published a few years later, is a coming-of-age story set in Cuba. It is a complex story told in often obscure language that reaffirms the narrator’s faith in his art and in himself. The book is considered to be Lezama’s masterpiece; it was…

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Latin American literature

  • Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo, Francisco Javier
    In Latin American literature: The boom novels

    …and Lezama Lima’s Paradiso (1966; Paradiso), a deeply poetic novel of education that created a scandal because of its homoerotic thematics. Some of these works have not aged well, and, in the cases of Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, and Donoso, later novels turned out to be better or more significant. Fuentes’s…

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