"Arguably the most important Cuban writer of the twentieth century, Jos???e Lezama Lima (1910-1976) is well-known as a poet, essayist, cultural promoter, and novelist, but not as a scientist. In fact, there is no evidence of any concrete relationship between him and any pure science discipline. How then it is possible to establish connections between Lezama's literary works and the disciplines of science? How are certain scientific discoveries and developments, such as the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, modern ...
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"Arguably the most important Cuban writer of the twentieth century, Jos???e Lezama Lima (1910-1976) is well-known as a poet, essayist, cultural promoter, and novelist, but not as a scientist. In fact, there is no evidence of any concrete relationship between him and any pure science discipline. How then it is possible to establish connections between Lezama's literary works and the disciplines of science? How are certain scientific discoveries and developments, such as the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, modern logic, thermodynamics, or the big bang theory, embraced in the cultural imaginary of Cuba during the first half of the twentieth century? And finally, how do those scientific discoveries and developments inform Lezama's aesthetic production? Grounded in his disciplinary experience in both literary and mathematical studies, Vargas attempts to unearth the overlaps and connections between science and art, thus offering a new critical apparatus with which scholars can study Lezama's works. In this book, he provides a close reading of Lezama's narrative works, including his two novels-Paradiso and Oppiano Licario-as well as Lezama's essays, press articles, and interviews. The author also examines the catalog of Lezama's personal library, revealing that his poetics are based on an original and fascinating appropriation of concepts, problems, solutions, and rhetorical devices in science. Resumen en espa???nol: Probablemente el escritor cubano m???as importante del siglo XX, Jos???e Lezama Lima (1910-1976) es reconocido como poeta, ensayista, promotor cultural, y novelista, pero no por su relaci???on con alguna disciplina de las ciencias puras. ???C???omo es posible entonces establecer alg???un tipo de asociaci???on entre el pensamiento y la obra de Lezama con disciplinas cient???ificas? ???C???omo se registran en el imaginario cultural de la Cuba de la primera mitad del siglo XX ciertos descubrimientos y desarrollos cient???ificos como la teor???ia de la relatividad, la mec???anica cu???antica, la l???ogica moderna, la termodin???amica, o la teor???ia del big bang? Y finalmente, ???quedan registrados esos descubrimientos y desarrollos cient???ificos en la producci???on est???etica de Lezama? Apoyado en la perspectiva que le brinda su formaci???on acad???emica tanto en matem???aticas como en estudios literarios, Vargas intenta resolver estos interrogantes. Una lectura detallada de la obra narrativa del autor cubano, incluyendo sus dos novelas-Paradiso y Oppiano Licario-y de gran parte de sus ensayos, art???iculos de prensa y entrevistas concedidas por ???el, as???i como un examen cuidadoso de lo que sobrevivi???o de su biblioteca personal, muestran que la propuesta po???etica de Lezama est???a sustentada sobre una fascinante y original apropiaci???on de conceptos, problemas, soluciones, y caracter???isticas ret???oricas del quehacer cient???ifico"--
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