Latest Review: "Firefly" by Severo Sarduy
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Will Vanderhyden on Severo Sarduy’s Firefly, which is translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried, and published by Archipelago Books. Will Vanderhyden (aka “Willsconsin,” which separates him from “Bromance Will” and “Will ...
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Firefly
To read Severo Sarduy, in the words of Rolland Barthes, is to be 鈥済orged with language,鈥 immersed in 鈥渢he teeming flux of every kind of linguistic pleasure.鈥 Firefly, the first novel from the Cuban born M茅dicis Prize winner to be translated into English in over a decade, is a funny and sad coming-of-age story. In ...
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