Severo Sarduy Collection, bulk Date acquired: 09/28/2015
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Sarduy, Mercedes
- Extent:
- 1.00 boxes
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
Background
- Scope and content:
This collection contains articles, both personal and from newspapers such as the El Nuevo Herald and ABC Madrid reflecting the local life of both Cuban and Hispanic cultures as well as personal documents detailing the life of Severo Sarduy and the political and social difficulties of Cuban life and of facing discrimination for homosexuality. Such documents are "Aprendizaje de la muerte" by Ignacio Echevarría, "En la muerte de Severo Sarduy" by Jose Miguel Ullan, and "Muere en Paris el escritor Severo Sarduy, figura emblemática del exilio cubano" by Juan Pedro Quiñonero.
- Biographical / historical:
Severo Sarduy was born onFebruary 25, 1937 in Camaguey, Cuba. He was novelist, poet, critic, and essayist, one of the best Cuban writers of the 20th century.
He went to Havana in the mid-1950s to study medicine, but he did not finish his studies. While living in Havana he pursued his vocation for poetry and painting and met older writers such as José Rodríguez Feo and Jose Lezama Lima. He published his first poems in the journal Ciclón.
In 1959, Sarduy became one of a group of young writers given the task of renewing Cuban literature sent to Paris by the government in 1960 to study art at the École du Louvre, Sarduy decided not to return to Cuba when his scholarship ran out a year later. Disaffected with Castro's regime and fearful of its persecution of homosexuals and the censorship imposed on writers, Sarduy never went home. In Paris he became close to the group of critics and theoreticians who published the journal Tel Quel, which promoted structuralism and experimental writing. He was also involved with El Mundo Nuevo, a Spanish-language journal directed by Uruguayan critic Emir Rodriguez Monegal. Severo Sarduy died on June 8, 1993 in Paris, France
Note written by
- Acquisition information:
Donated by Mercedes Sarduy, sister of Severo Sarduy
Donation
- Arrangement:
Materials are divided into boxes, with the various pieces sorted in periodical order.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
This collection is open for research.
- Location of this collection:
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Florida International University11200 SW 8th StreetMiamiFL33199USA
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