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Informationen zum Autor Ómar Vargas is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami where he has been a faculty member since 2015. Vargas completed his PhD in Spanish American literature at the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His research interests focus on the relationships between scientific discoveries and developments, and the narrative fiction of Latin America and the Caribbean in twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly in the cases of authors such as José Lezama Lima, Jorge Luis Borges, Salvador Elizondo, and Gabriel García Márquez. He is currently exploring the transition of the scientist to a writer in the case of Argentine author Ernesto Sábato. He has published in Latin American Literary Review, Ciberletras, The Borges Center, Revista Revolución y Cultura, Nueva Revista del Pacífico, and La Habana Elegante . Ómar Vargas es profesor asistente de español para el Departamento de lenguas modernas y literaturas de la Universidad de Miami. Vargas terminó su PhD en literatura hispanoamericana en la Universidad de Texas en Austin y sus estudios de pregrado en matemáticas en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Su área de investigación se ocupa de las relaciones entre descubrimientos y desarrollos científicos y la ficción narrativa de América Latina y el Caribe durante los siglos XX y XXI, particularmente en los casos de autores como José Lezama Lima, Jorge Luis Borges, Salvador Elizondo, y Gabriel García Márquez. Actualmente trabaja en una investigación que explora la transición de científico a escritor en el caso del autor argentino Ernesto Sábato. Ha publicado en Latin American Literary Review, Ciberletras, Variaciones Borges, Revista Revolución y Cultura, Nueva Revista del Pacífico , y La Habana Elegante . Klappentext Arguably the most important Cuban writer of the twentieth century, José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) is well-known as a poet, essayist, cultural promoter, and novelist, but not as a scientist. In fact, there is no evidence of any concrete relationship between him and any pure science discipline. How then it is possible to establish connections between Lezama's literary works and the disciplines of science? How are certain scientific discoveries and developments, such as the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, modern logic, thermodynamics, or the big bang theory, embraced in the cultural imaginary of Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century? And finally, how do those scientific discoveries and developments inform Lezama's aesthetic production?Grounded in his disciplinary experience in both literary and mathematical studies, Vargas attempts to unearth the overlaps and connections between science and art, thus offering a new critical apparatus with which scholars can study Lezama's works. In this book, he provides a close reading of Lezamäs narrative works, including his two novels-Paradiso and Oppiano Licario-as well as Lezama's essays, press articles, and interviews. The author also examines the catalog of Lezamäs personal library, revealing that his poetics are based on an original and fascinating appropriation of concepts, problems, solutions, and rhetorical devices in science.Probablemente el escritor Cubano más importante del siglo XX, José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) es reconocido como poeta, ensayista, promotor cultural, y novelista, pero no por su relación con alguna disciplina de las ciencias puras. ¿Cómo es posible entonces establecer algún tipo de asociación entre el pensamiento y la obra de Lezama con disciplinas científicas? ¿Cómo se registran en el imaginario cultural de la Cuba de la primera mitad del siglo XX ciertos descubrimientos y desarrollos científicos como la teoría de la relatividad, la mecánica cuántica, la lógica moderna, la termodinámica, o la teor...
