Paradiso Georgia author and character

author and character

proving the eternal creative flexibility of language and the restorative vitality of one person's cultural memory

but presented as God might see it or Bataille might write it

single poem that takes place in a progression of three settings

including fiction

Paradiso Georgia author and characterBy Jos Lezama Lima Translated by Gregory Rabassa ISBN: 9781564782281 Publication Date: 12 3 2005 A classic of modern literature, Paradiso was first published in Cuba in 1966 and quickly hailed as a masterpiece by such eminent writers as Julio Cortzar and Mario Vargas Llosa. Written by Cuba's most important poet, it tells the story of Jos Cem, who, in the wake of his father's premature death, comes of age in turn of the century Cuba, "an island