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Barroco and Other Writings

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"Severo Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque. While most of Sarduy's literary work is available in English, his theoretical writings have largely remained untranslated. This volume--presenting Sarduy's central theoretical contribution, Barroco (1974), alongside other related works--remedies that oversight. Barroco marks a watershed in postwar thought on the Baroque, both in French post-structuralism and in the Latin American context. Sarduy traces a double history, reading events in the history of science alongside developments in the history of art, architecture, and literature. What emerges is a theory of the Baroque as decentering and displacement, as supplement and excess, a theory capacious enough to account for the old European Baroque as well as its queer, Latin American and global futures. In addition to Barroco, this volume includes texts spanning Sarduy's career, from 1960s essays published originally in Tel Quel to late works from the 1980s and '90s. It thus offers a complete picture of Sarduy's thinking on the Baroque"--

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Note on Texts and Translation

Introduction

ONE

0. Echo Chamber I. The Word "Barroco

I. The Word "Barroco

II. Cosmology before the Baroque

III. Baroque Cosmology: Kepler

IV. Cosmology after the Baroque

V. Supplement

TWO

I. Zero

II. Circle

III. Cycle

Other Writings

Metaphor Squared: On Góngora

Cubes

The Fury of the Paintbrush

Furious Baroque

The Heir

Fractal Baroque

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Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) was a Cuban novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic, and winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger.Alex Verdolini is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University and teaches at the Cooper Union. Iván Hofman is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University.

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Authors Severo Sarduy, Severo/ Hofman Sarduy
Assisted by Ivan Hofman (Translation), Iván Hofman (Translation), Alex Verdolini (Translation)
Publisher Stanford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 12.11.2024
 
EAN 9781503641136
ISBN 978-1-5036-4113-6
No. of pages 200
Series Cultural Memory in the Present
Subject Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day

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