The subversive scribe

Suzanne Jill Levine

earliest edition we have, 1991 Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1998 237 pages

Lengua y estudios literarios

To most of us, "subversion" means political subversion, but this book is about collaboration not with an enemy, but with texts and between writers. The author is the translator of some of the most inventive Latin American authors of the twentieth century--including Julio Cortázar, G. Cabrera Infante, Manuel Puig, and Severo Sarduy--each of whom were revolutionaries not only on the page, but in confronting the sexual...

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The subversive scribe edition · 2009 · Dalkey Archive Press · 196 pages · 9781564785633
Escriba subversiva edition · 1998 · Fondo de Cultura Económica · 237 pages
The subversive scribe edition · 1991 · Graywolf Press · 196 pages

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