Bibliograph

Firefly, Severo Sarduy ; translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried

Type

Label

Firefly, Severo Sarduy ; translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Firefly

Oclc number

783151781

Responsibility statement

Severo Sarduy ; translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried

Summary

For the first time in English, Severo Sarduy's most autobiographical work, centered on two transvestites who undergo oppositional sexual surgeries (one is castrated, the other is given a new member). This convention-defying, scatological, and very funny novel is a paradise of words, "paradisic by plenitude" (Roland Barthes)

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: So no one will know I'm afraid -- To become somebody else -- Lack of air -- A stable thought between two bouts of lunacy -- Haven't you ever seen a bat smoke? -- Firefly out cold -- Poem from Plaza del Vapor -- The urge to laugh -- Disillusion -- Wall tiles, with bony dance band -- It's going to snow

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