"This luxurious translation of a Spanish tour de force, about the return of an exile to his native Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War, should captivate those who prize the elegant lyricism and complexity of Latin American fiction"-"Publishers Weekly""Marks of Identity" is the first volume of Goyt[...]
In "A Cock-Eyed Comedy," Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain's history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei religious leader in present-day Spain, whose conformity Goytisolo delightfully savages. A cast of real peop[...]
La presente reedicion de Tras los pasos de Juan Goytisolo por los Campos de Nijar quiere conmemorar los sesenta (60) anos de primera visita en 1956 de Juan Goytisolo a Almeria, Premio Cervantes de las Letras. Aquella visita dio origen a la novela social Campos de Nijar, una obra clave en la litera[...]
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 [...]