Cobra: And, Maitreya

by Severo Sarduy

The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564780767
• ISBN13: 9781564780768
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher