From Cuba with a Song (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Severo Sarduy
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Experimental
- Time of Work: The 1950’s and from the Middle Ages to 1959
- Setting: Cuba
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory, Metafiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Language or languages, Philosophy or philosophers, Symbolism, Cuba or Cubans, Existentialism
- Locales: Cuba
Characters Discussed
Mortal Pérez (mohr-TAHL PEH-rehs), a common name from Dolores Rondón’s epitaph (“come, mortal, and see”) turned into a character. He is a blond Spaniard who speaks Castilian Spanish and who always possesses some attribute of power. He starts as an old general, when, in “By the River of Rose Ashes,” he falls in love with and relentlessly pursues Lotus Flower. At first a voyeur, he ends as a would-be assassin. In “Dolores Rondón,” he is a politician rising from provincial obscurity to national prominence as a senator. His fall comes when it...
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