Article: Las palabras perdidas.(Brief Article)

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Jesus Diaz's novel Las palabras perdidas is its subtle, mature rendering of the Cuban neobaroque. What is baroque about it is not a complex, verbose narrative or multiple plot lines. Rather, its imagery appears to blossom into variegated patterns. One example is the multilayered play initiated when two of the three aspiring young writers who are the central characters of the work are granted an audience with Jose Lezama Lima, known as "El Inmenso." (He is that physically as well as in his influence over Cuban letters.) They are startled when Lezama, a well-known homosexual, tells them, "Muestrenme los instrumentooos, jovencitooos." They ...

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