✍ Scribed by Lezama Lima, José
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José Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 - August 8, 1976) was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature. When Paradiso was first published in Cuba in 1966, it was hailed as a masterpiece of contemporary literature by such eminent writers as Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Emir Rodriguez Monegal.
Written in an elaborately baroque style, the narrative follows the childhood and youth of José Cemí, and depicts many scenes which resonate with Lezama's own life as a young poet in Havana. Many of the characters reappear in Lezama's posthumous novel Oppiano Licario, which was published in Mexico in 1977.
The novel relates Cemí's struggles with a mysterious childhood illness, describes the death of his father, and explores his homosexuality and literary sensibilities. He lives in the world of pre-Castro Havana, and the Cuban Revolution only appears as a secondary plot. Some of the later chapters incorporate narrative experiments in which several alternating stories, set during widely divergent eras and having no immediately apparent connection with José Cemí, are interwoven and eventually merged.
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