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 this novel, 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.
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His iconoclastic impulse shapes the novel at every level. Even the structure of the writing is a protest against what he once called the "tyrannical conception of genre" ' - The Believer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781564784537
Publisert
2007-01-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Dalkey Archive Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
352

Biographical note

Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona at 1931. A vocal opponent of Franco, he left Spain for France in 1956.