Cobra and Maitreya: Two Novels Essays and Commentary in prose of extraordinary richness

in prose of extraordinary richness she tests the nature of her characters—and the nature of reality

where the next Kafka

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was one of the great modernist writers

then with his daughter as he grows into mature manhood

and João Almino

Cobra and Maitreya: Two Novels Essays and Commentary in prose of extraordinary richnessThe late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and here bound back to back are his two finest creations. Cobra (1972) recounts the tale of a transvestite named Cobra The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and here bound back to back are his two finest creations. Cobra (1972)