Severo Sarduy

Severo Sarduy (born February 25, 1937 in Camagüey , Cuba ; † June 8, 1993 in Paris , France ) was a Cuban poet , dramaturge and critic of Cuban art and literature.

Life

Sarduy acquired the bachillerato , the Cuban university entrance qualification, in Camagüey and began studying medicine in Havana in 1956 . After the successful Cuban Revolution , he worked for the Marxist papers Diario libre and Lunes de revolución .

When Sarduy came to Paris in 1960 to study at the École du Louvre , he became acquainted with the intellectual group that published the Tel Quel magazine. Among them was the philosopher François Wahl , Sarduy's later life partner.

Sarduy worked as a reader and critic for Éditions du Seuil and as a producer for the largest French television station Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française .

In 1972 Sarduy won the French literary prize Prix ​​Médicis for his novel Cobra . He is counted among the greatest essayists and poets who wrote Spanish in his day and, alongside José Lezama Lima , Virgilio Piñera and Reinaldo Arenas, is one of the most important Cuban authors of the 20th century. Part of his work explicitly deals with male homosexuality and transvestism .

In addition, he was also a more or less secret painter. After his death, a large retrospective of his work was shown in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid .

Sarduy died of AIDS shortly after completing his autobiographical work Los pájaros de la playa .

Works

• Gestos . 1963, German: Movements. Narrative , ad Span. v. Helmut Frielinghaus. Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp 1968 [edition suhrkamp 266]
• De donde son los cantantes . 1967, German: Where the singers are from , ad kub. Chip. v. Thomas Brovot. Berlin, Edition diá 1993; E-Book: Edition diá 2014, ISBN 978-3-86034-522-1 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-622-8 (Mobi)
• Escrito sobre un cuerpo . 1969
• Flamenco . 1970.
• Mood indigo . 1970.
• La playa . 1971.
• La caída . 1971.
• Relato . 1971.
• Los matadores de Hormigas . 1971.
• Cobra . 1972.
• Barroco . 1974.
• Para la voz . 1977.
• Big bang . 1974.
• Maitreya . 1978.
• La simulación. 1982.
• Colibrí . 1984, German: Kolibri , ad kub. Chip. v. Thomas Brovot. Berlin, Edition diá 1991; E-Book: Edition diá 2014, ISBN 978-3-86034-521-4 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-621-1 (Mobi)
• El cristo de la Rue Jacob. 1987.
• Nueva inestabilidad . 1987.
• Ensayos generales sobre el barroco. 1987.
• Cocuyo . 1990.
• Pájaros de la playa . 1993, posthumously .

Poems

• Flamenco . 1971.
• Mood indigo . 1971.
• Big bang . 1974.
• Daiquiri . 1980.
• Un testigo fugaz y disfrazado. 1985.
• Lucidez . Signos 1988

Prices

• 1972: Prix ​​Médicis for Cobra .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bill Marshall: France and the Americas. Culture, Politics, and History. A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara CA et al. 2005, ISBN 1-85109-411-3 ( Transatlantic Relations ).
2. ↑ Alberto Mira: Para entendernos. Diccionario de cultura homosexual, gay y lésbica. Ediciones de la tempestad, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-7948-038-6 .
3. ↑ Luis Duno Gottberg: Solventando las diferencias. La ideología del mestizaje en Cuba. Iberoamericana et al., Madrid et al. 2003, ISBN 84-8489-091-0 .

literature

• Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilín: Sarduy, Severo. In: David William Foster (Ed.): Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes. A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press, Westport 1994, ISBN 0-313-28479-2 , pp. 414-418.
• Nina Preyer: Severo Sarduy's symbol cosmos. Theory and practice of a novel poetics of "neobarroco cubano". Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6165-5 .
• Nina Preyer: Severo Sarduy. In: Sebastian Domsch, Annegret Heitmann, Irmela Hijiya-Krischnereit, Wolfgang Kissel, Thomas Klinkert, Barbara Winckler (Eds.): Critical Lexicon for Contemporary Foreign Language Literature (KLfG) . 89th Nlg. Edition Text + Critique, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-240-9 , pp. 1–10 and A1-D2. ( https://www.munzinger.de/search/query?query.id=query-18 )