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Paradiso

José Lezama Lima

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1966
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 490

An asthmatic Cuban boy grows up inside a large, warm, storytelling family, and slowly, through illness, friendship and reading, discovers that he is going to be a poet.

The greatness of man consists in his ability to assimilate what's unknown to him. To assimilate, in depth, is to give an answer.
Paradiso, José Lezama Lima

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