José Lezama Lima (Havana, 1912 - 1976) Poet, essayist and Cuban novelist considered, together with Alejo Carpentier, one of the greatest figures that insular literature has given. Framed in the «Boom» of Spanish-American literature of the 60s, José Lezama Lima occupied a singular position within it with his unusual neo-baroqueism, which had its most successful expression in the novel Paradiso (1966); Due to its radical novelty and strong influence, the importance of his work is comparable to that of the other protagonists of the "Boom" (Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Benedetti, among others).