Count Julian

Count Julian PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Don Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo s trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the Landless), this story of an exiled Spaniard confronts all of Goytisolo s own worst fears about fascist Spain. The narrator identifies himself with the real Don Julian, the Great Traitor who allegedly opened the gates of Spain to an invasion of Moors and the consequent eight hundred years of Islamic Influence. For the narrator, nothing short of the total destruction of Spain and all things Spanish will be an acceptable punishment for his exile.

Count Julian

Count Julian PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Book Description
Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Don Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo s trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the Landless), this story of an exiled Spaniard confronts all of Goytisolo s own worst fears about fascist Spain. The narrator identifies himself with the real Don Julian, the Great Traitor who allegedly opened the gates of Spain to an invasion of Moors and the consequent eight hundred years of Islamic Influence. For the narrator, nothing short of the total destruction of Spain and all things Spanish will be an acceptable punishment for his exile.

Makbara

Makbara PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564785060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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In Makbara, Juan Goytisolo -- widely considered Spain's greatest living writer -- again dazzles the reader with his energetic, stylistic prose, which he himself compares to a snake: cunning, sly, sinuous. But the themes in Makbara are perhaps more universal than in his earlier works. Makbara is full of its own kind of warmth, humor, and love. After all, makbara is an Arab word referring to the spot in North African cemeteries where young couples meet for romantic encounters. Sex, for Goytisolo, is clearly the greatest cosmic joke, the great leveller. "Sex," he says, "is above all freedom."

Landscapes After the Battle

Landscapes After the Battle PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781852421137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Trapped in his apartment in an immigrant district of Paris, the narrator is far from the high life of museums, elegant restaurants and boutiques. Within this imprisonment, his thoughts oscillate between revolutionary terrorism and pre-pubescent sexuality - a concern he shares with Lewis Carroll. Mirroring the conventions of Arabic texts, Landscapes After the Battle is to be understood from the perspective of its end; an end where the relationship between writer, the reader and the written is revealed as playful and humorous. The appearance of the comic in a novel by Juan Goytisolo is unexpected; like Dracula at a haemophiliacs? convention.

State of Siege

State of Siege PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872864061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Set during the siege of Sarajevo these fictionalized reflections bear witness to the universal cry for freedom.

Juan the Landless

Juan the Landless PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.

Saracen Chronicles

Saracen Chronicles PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Marks of Identity

Marks of Identity PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781852427672
Category : Identity (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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New edition of first volume of Goytisolo's great trilogy.

Marks of Identity

Marks of Identity PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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An exile returns to Spain from France to find that he is repelled by the fascism of Franco's Spain and drawn to the world of Muslim culture. In Marks of Identity, Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, speaks for a generation of Spaniards who were small children during the Spanish Civil War, grew up under a stifling dictatorship, and, in many cases, emigrated in desperation from their dying country. Upon his return, the narrator confronts the most controversial political, religious, social, and sexual issues of our time with ferocious energy and elegant prose. Torn between the Islamic and European worlds around him, he finds both ultimately unsatisfactory. In the end, only displacement survives.

Antagony

Antagony PDF Author: Luis Goytisolo
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1628974184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1579

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This potent drama, a collected volume of Goytisolo's famed tetralogy following a Catalan family, is widely regarded as one of the most profound inquiries ever undertaken on literary creation. Antagony surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The work, originally published as a tetralogy and now collected into one volume, follows the youth and education of Raúl Ferrer Gaminde, son of a well-connected, middle-class Catalan family that embraces Franco and Spanish Nationalism. Its potent drama plays out through Goytisolo’s crisp, forceful presentation of youth, humor, optimism, rebellion, violence, sexual awakening, indulgence, punishment, and the realization of one’s artistic vocation. Alternately modern and historical, Antagony displays intelligent realism, emotional gravity, profane beauty, brute vulgarity, sweeping rhetorical scope, and seamless transitions through long, streaming passages of narrative and introspection.

Space in Motion

Space in Motion PDF Author: Juan Goytisolo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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The first collection of Goytisolo's essays to appear in English. "Rarely does fortune deliver so significant a book....This collection of essays qua travel literature is in fact a serious study of the nature of understanding."--Small Press