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Juan Goytisolo (1931–2017)

Autor(a) de Marks of Identity

124+ Works 2,465 Membros 48 Críticas 6 Favorited

About the Author

Juan Goytisolo Gay was born in Barcelona, Spain on January 5, 1931. He studied law at the University of Madrid and the University of Barcelona, but did not earn a degree. His first novel, The Young Assassins, was published in 1954. He wrote Children of Chaos and performed six months of military mostrar mais service before moving to Paris in 1956. He found work as a reader for Gallimard, one of France's premier publishing houses, and continued to write. His novels include Fiestas, Island of Women, Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, Makbara, Landscapes after the Battle, The Marx Family Saga, A Cock-Eyed Comedy, State of Siege, and Exiled from Almost Everywhere. He also wrote two political travelogues entitled Countryside of Níjar and La Chanca and two memoirs entitled Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife. He died on June 4, 2017 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Juan Goytisolo

Marks of Identity (1969) 416 exemplares
Count Julian (1970) 218 exemplares
Juan the Landless (1975) 130 exemplares
Landscapes After the Battle (1982) 113 exemplares
Makbara (1979) 109 exemplares
The Marx Family Saga (1993) 101 exemplares
State of Siege (1995) 79 exemplares
Children of Chaos (1958) 77 exemplares
The Countryside of Nijar (1973) 71 exemplares
A Cock-Eyed Comedy (2000) 68 exemplares
Para vivir aquí (1960) 68 exemplares
The Garden of Secrets (1997) 66 exemplares
Quarantine (1991) 49 exemplares
Fiestas (1960) 47 exemplares
The young assassins (1954) 42 exemplares
Estambul otomano (1901) 23 exemplares
La resaca (1959) 20 exemplares
Space in Motion (1987) 18 exemplares
El furgón de cola (1976) 15 exemplares
Island of Women (1961) 15 exemplares
The Blind Rider (2005) 14 exemplares
Spanien und die Spanier (1979) 12 exemplares
Disidencias (1977) 11 exemplares
La chanca (1964) 11 exemplares
Genet en el Raval (2008) 10 exemplares
La cuarentena (1991) 9 exemplares
Argelia en el vendaval (1994) — Autor — 9 exemplares
Cogitus interruptus (1999) 8 exemplares
De la Ceca a la Meca (1997) 6 exemplares
Obras completas (1977) 6 exemplares
El bosque de las letras (1990) 5 exemplares
El circo (1972) 5 exemplares
Obra inglesa de Blanco White (1982) 4 exemplares
Belleza sin ley (2013) 3 exemplares
Yeryuzunde Bir Surgun (2006) 3 exemplares
ERIAL Y SUS ISLAS,EL (2015) 3 exemplares
Libertad, libertad, libertad (1978) 2 exemplares
Les Cervantiades (2000) 2 exemplares
Carte de identitate (2008) 2 exemplares
Barzakh (1991) 2 exemplares
Kapadokya'da Gaudi'nin Izinde (2015) 2 exemplares
Karl Marx show (2005) 2 exemplares
Contracorrientes (1985) 2 exemplares
La longue vie des Marx (1995) 2 exemplares
Obras completa IV (1988-2003) (2008) 2 exemplares
Sands of Torreemolinos (2002) 2 exemplares
Obras completas I (2005) 2 exemplares
Trois semaines en ce jardin (1999) 2 exemplares
Kusatma Hali (2015) 1 exemplar
Party's Over (1966) 1 exemplar
Goto vedado 1 exemplar
La Forêt de l'écriture (1997) 1 exemplar
Carajicomedia 2000 1 exemplar
Súboj v Raji 1 exemplar
Campos de Níjar- 2021 (2021) 1 exemplar
Yasak Bölge - Anilar 1 (2015) 1 exemplar
Hordalék regény 1 exemplar
Szigeti krónika 1 exemplar
Resac 1 exemplar
Juego de manos 1 exemplar
Pueblo en marcha 1 exemplar
El Sur 1 exemplar
Oltre il sipario (2004) 1 exemplar
España y sus ejidos (2003) 1 exemplar
Ella, Elle (2010) 1 exemplar
Ostrov 1 exemplar
I bakvattnet 1 exemplar
Festiviteiten 1 exemplar
El Arbol de la literatura (1901) 1 exemplar
Praznovanje drugih 1 exemplar
La Guardia 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) — Introdução, algumas edições2,562 exemplares
Celestina (1499) — Introdução, algumas edições2,062 exemplares
Spanish Stories = Cuentos Españoles (1960) — Contribuidor — 391 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Contribuidor — 332 exemplares
The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy (1999) — Contribuidor, algumas edições47 exemplares
Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (1905) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
De eerste vrouw (1983) — Prefácio, algumas edições19 exemplares
Even op verhaal komen — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Nota de Pamen en 1ª pág.: Para leer en valladolid 6/5/94 Pamen
 
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aallegue | 1 outra crítica | Feb 11, 2024 |
Una de les millors novel·les de Goytisolo.
 
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jrzaballos | 6 outras críticas | Feb 10, 2024 |
 
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bibliotecasfj | 3 outras críticas | Jun 20, 2023 |
Originally published in Buenos Aires in 1960, this short story collection didn't appear in Spain until after the death of Franco: Goytisolo put his fingers on rather too many of the sore points of the nationalist state for it to get past the censors. You just have to look at the opening story "Cara y cruz" to see why: two young men go out for a jolly evening in Barcelona, only to find that the police have swept the streets clean in preparation for a prestigious Catholic conference in the city. The ladies of the night have all been bussed out to Gerona, it turns out, so they set off in pursuit and find that it is indeed party time in that normally quiet town, with hundreds of displaced prostitutes all looking for work...

The seven short stories and one longer piece are all drawn from Goytisolo's experiences in Spain in the late fifties, as a student in Barcelona, doing military service, and travelling in the South with a companion presumably based on Monique Lange ("El viaje"). There's a lot of material that appears here as fiction but was re-used in a slightly different form twenty years later in the author's memoirs. In particular, the story "Otoño, en el puerto, cuando llovizina", describing the narrator's waterfront idyll with a fisherman called Raimundo, comes back pretty much in the same words in Forbidden territory.

The content of the final, longer piece, "Aqui abajo", doesn't come back in the memoirs. It describes the experiences of a university graduate doing military service in an obscure garrison town where there is essentially nothing for the army to do, and an awful lot of officers and men pretending to be doing something useful for the glory of Spain. In the narrator's case, his work mostly involves pointlessly copying lists of names from one ledger to another for a couple of hours a day. Goytisolo makes a point of telling us about the excessive drinking and whoring of the officers, about the (grass-) widows on the prowl for young men, and about the disgraceful poverty and illiteracy of the young recruits from Andalucia, all of whom are determined to do whatever it might take to avoid ever having to go back to their villages.

Interesting to see Goytisolo before he went all experimental, writing what is essentially social-realist fiction.
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thorold | 3 outras críticas | Jun 2, 2023 |

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Obras
124
Also by
11
Membros
2,465
Popularidade
#10,403
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
48
ISBN
325
Línguas
12
Marcado como favorito
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