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1 I am following here some ideas taken from the best monographs on Sarduy, all published outside Cuba: Roberto González Echevarría, La ruta de Severo Sarduy (Hanover, NH: Ediciones del Norte, 1987); Gustavo Guerrero, La estrategia neobarroca (Barcelona: Ediciones del Mall, 1987); Marie Anne Macé, Severo Sarduy (Paris: Editions L’’’Harmattan, 1992); Adriana Méndez Ródenas, Severo Sarduy: El neobarroco de la transgresión (México, D.F.: UNAM, 1993); Rolando Pérez, Severo Sarduy and the Religion of the Text (Lanham: University Press of America, 1988); Julián Ríos, Severo Sarduy (Madrid: Fundamentos, 1976); Andrés Sánchez Robayna, La Victoria de la representación: Lectura de Severo Sarduy (Valencia: Ediciones Episteme, 1996).
2 Severo Sarduy, Obra completa, Vol. I (México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999), 422–423; modified English translation: From Cuba with a Song, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1994), 22.
3 Sarduy, Obra completa, Vol. II, 1121–1137.
4 Sarduy, Obra completa, Vol. II, 1139, 1193.
5 One of the less aggressive versions of this analysis may be found in Ernesto Sierra, “Mundo Nuevo y las máscaras de la cultura,” Hipertexto 3 (2006), 3–13.
6 María Eugenia Mudrovcic, Mundo Nuevo: Cultura y Guerra Fría en la década del 60 (Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 1997), 46–54, 55–80, and 81–114; Marta Ruiz Galvete, “Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura: Anticomunismo y Guerra Fría en América Latina,” El Argonauta Español 3 (2006), 7–8.
7 Sarduy, op. cit., 1197–1261.
8 Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill & Wang, 1977), 71–72.
9 Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (New York: Hill & Wang, 1975), 8.
10 Sarduy, Obra completa, Vol. I, 473–485; English translation: Cobra & Maitreya, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1995).
11 Sarduy, Obra completa, Vol. II, 1729–1730. See also Barthes, The Rustle of Language, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill & Wang, 1989), 233–235.
12 Barthes, “The Baroque Side,” The Rustle of Language, 233–235.
13 Barthes, “The Baroque Side,” The Rustle of Language, 234.
14 Barthes, “The Baroque Side,” The Rustle of Language, 234.
15 See Barthes, A Lover’’’s Discourse: Fragments, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill & Wang, 2010) and The Preparation of the Novel: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1978–1980, trans. Kate Briggs (New York: Columbia UP, 2010).
16 Barthes, The Rustle of Language, 233.
17 Sarduy, Obra completa, Vol. II, 1250.
18 Sarduy, Obra completa, Vol. II, 1253.
19 Sarduy, Obra completa, Vol. II, 1588–1590.
20 Sarduy, Cobra & Maitreya, 16.
21 Bolívar Echeverría, La modernidad de lo barroco (México, D.F.: Era, 1998), 14–16.
22 Bolívar Echeverría, La modernidad de lo barroco (México, D.F.: Era, 1998), 207–224.
23 Bolívar Echeverría, La modernidad de lo barroco (México, D.F.: Era, 1998), 16.
24 Bolívar Echeverría, La modernidad de lo barroco (México, D.F.: Era, 1998), 16.
25 Bolívar Echeverría, La modernidad de lo barroco (México, D.F.: Era, 1998), 35.
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Rafael Rojas
Rafael Rojas (Cuba, 1965) is a professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City. He is the author of twenty books on intellectual history and politics in Cuba, Mexico, and Latin America, most recently Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution (2015) and Viajes del saber. Ensayos sobre lectura y traducción en Cuba (2018; Journeys of Knowledge: Essays on Reading and Translation in Cuba).