Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) was a Cuban novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic, and winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger. Alex Verdolini is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University and teaches at the Cooper Union. Iván Hofman is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University.

"Severo Sarduy's writings combine a vibrant Cuban language with sophisticated theoretical reflections, and Barroco is one of his most important works: a meditation on the aesthetic that shaped Latin American and European cultures in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, along with a Neo-Baroque turn in the twentieth." - Rubén Gallo, Princeton University "The Baroque, it could be said, is an exercise in the liberation of the Spanish language. Barroco refuses the foregone conclusions perpetuated by language; Sarduy embraces the Neo-Baroque practice of remaking representation, impelled by the need for a language free of the world's mere duplication in writing." - Julio Ortega, Brown University "At long last, in a new and complete translation that navigates the author's tergiversation between Spanish and French, we have a definitive English edition of Barroco: an intriguing experiment with theories of figuration, geometric formalism, temporal recursion (retombée), and cosmic eccentricity by the Cuban exile Severo Sarduy. A novel exercise in anamorphic, elliptical thinking, a true event in the history of poetics and critical thought, Barroco will become essential reading for thinkers and comparatists of every stripe." - Emily Apter, New York University "In a time of ubiquitous minimalism, where cannabis dispensaries and coffee shops look like Apple stores; of PhD dissertations that elaborate on niche topics through very specialized lenses, Severo Sarduy's Barroco and Other Writings breaks out from the grave as a fresh, lively book." - Carlos Egaña, Latin American Literature Today

• Note on Texts and TranslationIntroductionONE0. Echo Chamber I. The Word "BarrocoI. The Word "BarrocoII. Cosmology before the BaroqueIII. Baroque Cosmology: KeplerIV. Cosmology after the BaroqueV. SupplementTWOI. ZeroII. CircleIII. CycleOther WritingsMetaphor Squared: On GóngoraCubesThe Fury of the PaintbrushFurious BaroqueThe HeirFractal BaroqueNotes

Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) was a Cuban novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic, and winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger. Alex Verdolini is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University and teaches at the Cooper Union. Iván Hofman is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University.

"Severo Sarduy's writings combine a vibrant Cuban language with sophisticated theoretical reflections, and Barroco is one of his most important works: a meditation on the aesthetic that shaped Latin American and European cultures in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, along with a Neo-Baroque turn in the twentieth." - Rubén Gallo, Princeton University "The Baroque, it could be said, is an exercise in the liberation of the Spanish language. Barroco refuses the foregone conclusions perpetuated by language; Sarduy embraces the Neo-Baroque practice of remaking representation, impelled by the need for a language free of the world's mere duplication in writing." - Julio Ortega, Brown University "At long last, in a new and complete translation that navigates the author's tergiversation between Spanish and French, we have a definitive English edition of Barroco: an intriguing experiment with theories of figuration, geometric formalism, temporal recursion (retombée), and cosmic eccentricity by the Cuban exile Severo Sarduy. A novel exercise in anamorphic, elliptical thinking, a true event in the history of poetics and critical thought, Barroco will become essential reading for thinkers and comparatists of every stripe." - Emily Apter, New York University "In a time of ubiquitous minimalism, where cannabis dispensaries and coffee shops look like Apple stores; of PhD dissertations that elaborate on niche topics through very specialized lenses, Severo Sarduy's Barroco and Other Writings breaks out from the grave as a fresh, lively book." - Carlos Egaña, Latin American Literature Today

• Note on Texts and TranslationIntroductionONE0. Echo Chamber I. The Word "BarrocoI. The Word "BarrocoII. Cosmology before the BaroqueIII. Baroque Cosmology: KeplerIV. Cosmology after the BaroqueV. SupplementTWOI. ZeroII. CircleIII. CycleOther WritingsMetaphor Squared: On GóngoraCubesThe Fury of the PaintbrushFurious BaroqueThe HeirFractal BaroqueNotes

Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) was a Cuban novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic, and winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger. Alex Verdolini is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University and teaches at the Cooper Union. Iván Hofman is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University.

"Severo Sarduy's writings combine a vibrant Cuban language with sophisticated theoretical reflections, and Barroco is one of his most important works: a meditation on the aesthetic that shaped Latin American and European cultures in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, along with a Neo-Baroque turn in the twentieth." - Rubén Gallo, Princeton University "The Baroque, it could be said, is an exercise in the liberation of the Spanish language. Barroco refuses the foregone conclusions perpetuated by language; Sarduy embraces the Neo-Baroque practice of remaking representation, impelled by the need for a language free of the world's mere duplication in writing." - Julio Ortega, Brown University "At long last, in a new and complete translation that navigates the author's tergiversation between Spanish and French, we have a definitive English edition of Barroco: an intriguing experiment with theories of figuration, geometric formalism, temporal recursion (retombée), and cosmic eccentricity by the Cuban exile Severo Sarduy. A novel exercise in anamorphic, elliptical thinking, a true event in the history of poetics and critical thought, Barroco will become essential reading for thinkers and comparatists of every stripe." - Emily Apter, New York University "In a time of ubiquitous minimalism, where cannabis dispensaries and coffee shops look like Apple stores; of PhD dissertations that elaborate on niche topics through very specialized lenses, Severo Sarduy's Barroco and Other Writings breaks out from the grave as a fresh, lively book." - Carlos Egaña, Latin American Literature Today

• Note on Texts and TranslationIntroductionONE0. Echo Chamber I. The Word "BarrocoI. The Word "BarrocoII. Cosmology before the BaroqueIII. Baroque Cosmology: KeplerIV. Cosmology after the BaroqueV. SupplementTWOI. ZeroII. CircleIII. CycleOther WritingsMetaphor Squared: On GóngoraCubesThe Fury of the PaintbrushFurious BaroqueThe HeirFractal BaroqueNotes