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Museo Lezama Lima

Havana


The modest, book-filled house of late Cuban man of letters José Lezama Lima is worth a quick stop if you're interested in understanding Cuban literature beyond Hemingway. Lima's magnum opus was the rambling classic Paradiso, and he wrote most of it here.


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