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Article: From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima. By CESAR AUGUSTO SALGADO. (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 265 pp. $43.50.
Cesar Augusto Salgado's book is a comparative study that lucidly traces a common aesthetic between James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake and Jose Lezama Lima's two novels Paradiso and Oppiano Licario. This is achieved through the close textual study, not only of the novels concerned, but also of the critical debates these novels have instigated and in which they have become implicated, ...