For Voice
Four plays by Severo SarduyTranslated by Philip Barnard
ISBN: 0-935480-20-X
Price: $13.00
Pages: 136
"Sarduy's dramatic personae create sign systems in a
constant interplay between visual and auditory signifiers, a
process not unpredictable in his prose, since he is one of
the closest Spanish-language writers to French literary
theoreticians such as Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva."
--Choice
"Severo Sarduy inhabits language in a felicitous
manner: his love of words is not a mania (he is never
verbose), but an affection. Hence a paradoxical effect: the
futility he dramatizes shines with the pleasure of writing,
and our, or at least my own, way of listening itself is won
over by his confidence."
--Roland Barthes