The Virtues of the Solitary Bird - Brossura

Goytisolo, Juan; Lane, Helen R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1852421754 ISBN 13: 9781852421755

Casa editrice: Serpents Tail, 1991

Riassunto

The narrator, who, while confined to a hospital bed, is persecuted by the medical profession, identifies with St. John of the Cross, who, 400 years earlier, fused Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs together in his writings

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Recensione:

'The most important living novelist from Spain? Guardian ?A transgressive, violatory, heretical text...the work of Juan Goytisolo defines from a Spanish point of view the permanant revolution of the contemporary novel. Surrounded by anachronism, chauvinism, the remnants of realism, the frivolousness of entertainment and lightness, rationalist terorism and psyche unease, the geography of the modern novel uses these boundaries in order to transcend them and, against all opposition, enlarge the horizon of human possibilities? Carlos Fuentes ?Juan Goytisolo is one of the most rigorous and original contemporary writers. His books are a strange mixture of pitiless autobiography, the debunking of mythologies and conformist fetishes, passionate exploration of the periphery of the West - in particular of the Arab world which he knows intimately - and audacious linguistic experiment? Mario Vargas Llosa

L'autore:

Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature. He lives in Morocco.

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• Editore: Serpents Tail
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1852421754
• ISBN 13: 9781852421755
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160