Essays by the author of "Cobra" and "Maitreya" exploring literature, painting, simulation in animals and humans as well as the ideas of Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva. "An important document in the history of Latin American literary criticism."--Alfred MacAdam, "Review"[...]
A unique collection by a notable contributor to Cuban literary history, this book includes four radio-plays in translation: "The Beach," "Fall," "Re-cite," and "The Ant-Killers." Radio-plays are an infrequently explored medium that attempt to adapt the concerns of contemporary literature to radio-dr[...]
"Sarduy is the master of wordscapes that dip, shake, and explode."--"The New York Times Book Review"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). [...]