Paradiso

"Many of the difficulties suffered by liberal intellectuals in Cuba have been caused by similar bureaucratic or personal vendettas which Fidel Castro may well have been too busy to bother about or put right. Castro is said to feel that there are more important things to do in Cuba than to worry about the problems of a few intellectuals. One encouraging sign was the publication in 1966 of Jose Lezama Lima's 'Paradiso', a complex, thickly metaphorical novel written...with no concern whatever with the revolution which, if we were to judge from what is expressed by [his] mannered, Gongoristic syntax, might never have happened."Lezama Lima, Jose is the author of 'Paradiso', published 2000 under ISBN 9781564782281 and ISBN 156478228X.