Severo Sarduy (1937–1993)
Auteur van Firefly
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Sarduy has written primarily in exile and under the aegis of contemporary French intellectual and cultural movements. His essays are dense speculations about the complex structure of contemporary culture, a line of inquiry that forms the basis of his highly wrought fiction. He explores individuals toon meer and situations as the intersection of multiple levels of cultural formation enacted (unconsciously by the characters) in even the most menial actions and events. Stripped down to their narrative core, Sarduy's novels typically deal with the quotidian, but the quotidian figured in a richly textured language that is as difficult to read as his cultural formations are to understand. Moreover, Sarduy has been especially audacious both in depicting taboo (panerotic sexualism, homosexuality, transvestism, and transgressive "gender bending" in general) and in demonstrating taboo's irrelevance to daily life. In Sarduy's vision, the lines drawn between taboo and transgression, the conventional and the deviant, are not real. In one sense, Sarduy's writing is quintessentially Cuban in themes and tone, while at the same time one of the best examples of Latin American late modernism. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- 1937-02-25
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- 1993-06-08
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- Camaguey, Cuba
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- Paris, France
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- Medici Prize
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Severo Sarduy, Cuban poet, one of the first of the revolution's intellectuals and art critics, was one of its most prominent citizens to die of AIDS. He went to Europe in 1960, at age 23, on a revolutionary scholarship to study in Madrid. When Spain expelled its Cubans in 1961, he did not return home but instead went to Paris where he lived until his death in 1993. He was considered a traitor by the Cuban government during this time. He never returned home though he did travel throughout Europe and to Africa, India and the United States.
Cocuyo (Firefly) was Sarduy's last novel (1990) and was published around the time he was working for Gallimard. This also is the time he tested positive for HIV.
Cocuyo. It translates to “firefly.” One look at a photograph of Sarduy with his round head, prominent ears and big eyes tells it all. Not exactly a handsome man, his full lips suggest more a female sensualist. His sister relates that all of his aunts' names, on his father's side, begin with the letter "C".
Of course, one need not read too much of this work to realize that this cannot be an even remotely faithful memoir. This is not Bukowski, Fallada, Lawrence or even Joyce. The events in this account are far too outlandish and symbolic. Burroughs comes to mind but Sarduy’s prose is much more beautiful. You want a writer who always finds the right word? Sarduy’s your man.
This is a work for lovers of language, poetry and hysterically funny evil. Let it roll over you. But don’t believe too much.… (meer)