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Juan the Landless
Goytisolo, Juan; Bush, Peter
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Description for Juan the Landless
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Juan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. The new text focuses on Goytisolo's surreal exploration and rejection of his own roots, Catholic Spain's repression of Muslims, Jews and gays, his ancestors' exploitation of Cuban slaves and his own forging of a language at once poetic, politic and ironic that celebrates the erotic act of writing and and the anarchic joy of being the ultimate outsider. In Juan the Landless the greatest living novelist from Spain defiantly re-invents tradition and the world as a man without ... Read more
Juan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. The new text focuses on Goytisolo's surreal exploration and rejection of his own roots, Catholic Spain's repression of Muslims, Jews and gays, his ancestors' exploitation of Cuban slaves and his own forging of a language at once poetic, politic and ironic that celebrates the erotic act of writing and and the anarchic joy of being the ultimate outsider. In Juan the Landless the greatest living novelist from Spain defiantly re-invents tradition and the world as a man without ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
163
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564785275
SKU
V9781564785275
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About Goytisolo, Juan; Bush, Peter
Ne a Barcelone, en 1931, intellectuel engage, oppose au franquisme, Juan Goytisolo s'est tres tot exile a Paris. Aujourd'hui installe a Marrakech, il est devenu un critique implacable de la civilisation occidentale. Auteur d'une quinzaine de romans et de nombreux essais, il a recu, en 1985, le prix Europalia pour l'ensemble de son uvre, en 2002 le prix Octavio Paz, ... Read more
Reviews for Juan the Landless
a blistering attack on authoritarianism and the cult of personality' - Publishers Weekly