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Cobra ; and, Maitreya / Severo Sarduy ; translated with a preface by Suzanne Jill Levine ; introduction by James McCourt.
- Title
- Cobra ; and, Maitreya / Severo Sarduy ; translated with a preface by Suzanne Jill Levine ; introduction by James McCourt.
- Author
- Sarduy, Severo
- Publication
- Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Levine, Suzanne Jill
- Description
- xviii, 273 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Cobra: Recounts the tale of a transvestite names Cobra, star of the Lyrical Theater of Dolls, whose obsession is to transform his/her body/ She is assisted in her metamorphosis by the Madam and Pup, Cobra's dwarfish double. They too change shape, through the violent ceremonies of a motorcycle gang, into a sect of Tibetan lamas seeking to revive Tantric Buddhism.
- Maitreya: Luis Leng, a humble Cuban Chinese cook, becomes a reincarnation of Buddha. Through Leng, Sarduy traces the metamorphosis of two hitherto incomparable societies, Tibet at the moment of the Chinese invasion, and Cuba at the moment of revolution.
- Uniform Title
- Cobra. English
- Alternative Title
- Cobra.
- Cobra ; and, Maitreya
- Maitreya.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1564780767
- LCCN
- ^^^94025167^
- OCLC
- 31295319
- SCSB-10815941
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library