Criticism

Bush, Audrew. "On Exemplarity and Postmodern Simulation: Robert Coover and Severo Sarduy." Comparative Literature 44, No. 2 (Spring 1992): 174-93.

Compares Sarduy's work with that of Robert Coover. Bush examines similarities between North American postmodernist fiction and South American literature after the so-called "Boom" of the 1960s; he focuses in particular on the relationship of each school to developments in French structuralist and post-structuralist literary theory.

Champagne, Roland A. Review of Cobra, by Severo Sarduy. Modern Language Journal 60, Nos. 1-2 (January-February 1976): 80.

Favorable review of Cobra.

Review of Para la voz (For Voice), by Severo Sarduy. Choice 23, No. 7 (March 1976): 1069.

Short, favorable review of Para la voz.

González Echevarría, Roberto. "Plain Song: Sarduy's Cobra." Contemporary Literature 28, No. 4 (Winter 1987): 437-59.

Examines oriental influences and structural elements in Cobra.

Levine, Suzanne J. "Writing as Translation: Three Trapped Tigers and a Cobra." Modern Language Notes 90, No. 2 (March 1975): 265-77.

Compares Sarduy's approach to the creative process with that of Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

Menton, Seymour. "Models for the Epic Novel of the Cuban Revolution." In Honor of Boyd G. Carter, edited by Catherine Vera and George R. McMurray, pp. 49-58. Laramie: The University of Wyoming, 1981.

Examines the works of many novelists, concluding that Gestos is "the novel closest to being the Cuban heroic epic."

Nordell, Roderick. "Kaleidoscopic Cobra in English." The Christian Science Monitor 67, No. 94 (9 April 1975): 27.

Unfavorable review of Cobra.

Prieto, Rene. "Mimetic Stratagems: The Unreliable Narrator in Latin American Literature." Revista De Estudios Hispanicos XIX, No. 3 (October 1985): 61-73.

Explores the works of several contemporary Hispanic writers. Prieto describes the narrator and narrative of Cobra as being "in perpetual transformation."

Review of Written on a Body, by Severo Sarduy, translated by Carol Maier. Publishers Weekly 256, No. 12 (22 September 1989): 50-1.

Mixed review of Written on a Body.

Seager, Dennis. "Conversation with Seudo Severo Sarduy: A Dialogue." Dispositio V-VI, Nos. 15-16 (Fall-Winter 1981): 129-42.

Discusses Cobra, De donde son los cantantes, Maitreya, and Escrito sobre un cuerpo. The essay is written to appear like an interview: Seager poses questions and responds to them as Sarduy, thereby literalizing his contention that "discourse is always a sort of dialogue."