Volume 21, Number 6 · April 18, 1974
Purgatorio
By Michael Wood
Paradiso
by José Lezama Lima, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 466 pp., $12.95
By all accounts the Cuban writer José Lezama Lima is a man of immense personal presence, a compelling conversationalist, possessor of an alarming, eccentric, unfathomable erudition; a sort of prolix, tropical, baroque Borges—Borges stood on his head and made to personify luxuriance and excess instead of brevity and asceticism.
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