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The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque
of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies,
and here bound back to back are his two finest creations. Cobra
(1972) recounts the tale of a transvestite named Cobra, star of the
Lyrical Theater of the 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 (1978) continues
the theme of metamorphosis, this time in the person of Luis Leng, a
humble Cuban-Chinese cook, who 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. Transgressing
genres and genders, reveling in literal and figurative
transvestism, these two novels are among the most daring
achievements of postmodern Latin American fiction.
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