Juan Goytisolo, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Sickle Moon $19.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-900209-16-8
Spain's great expatriate writer Goytisolo conveys his passion for Islamic popular culture in sensuous, bustling prose. He tours the thronging citadels of Arab cosmopolitanism and celebrates the clowns, bike artistes and gnaua
musicians of...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author Editorial Seix Barral $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-84-322-1056-3
Written by the acclaimed author of Las semanas del jardin: Un circulo de lectores (The Garden of Secrets, Alfaguara, 1997), this controversial and best-selling Spanish novel is a Swiftian satire on the Roman Catholic Church and its powerful...
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Juan Goytisolo, trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush, Dalkey Archive, $13.95 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-56478-635-7
Goytisolo (Young Assassins) misfires in this frustrating intellectual exercise, a circuitous journey into the virtual military industrial complex. Blown up in a terrorist attack, the Monster of Le Sentier lands in the Hereafter—a giant cybercafe—and
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Gregory Rabassa, Translator Serpent's Tail $15.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-85242-134-2
The reissue of this 1969 translation of a Spanish tour-de-force should captivate those who prize the elegant lyricism and complexity of Latin American fiction. Eschewing political dogma, Goytisolo's ( Forbidden Territory )BIP theme--explored in...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Serpent's Tail $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-85242-175-5
The solitary bird of Spanish writer Goytisolo's novel is a figure of many identities, all belonging to individuals in some way dispossessed. In a feminine guise, the solitary bird suffers from a disease that leaves her not only ``emaciated, covered...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Seaver Books $17.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0393-2
This engaging, gritty satire by Goytisolo, an outstanding Spanish novelist who left during Franco's regime, offers a skewed tour of the tough new Paris street life radiating outward from the neighborhood of the Sentier metro. In 78 rapid-fire...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Peter Bush, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Verso $25 (405p) ISBN 978-1-85984-555-4
In exile since the Franco regime vilified him for his frank mixture of leftist and bisexual politics, Goytisolo (The Garden of Secrets) is a Spanish writer who left for Paris in 1956. His books, some 30 of them by now, are rife with historical...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Peter Bush, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush. City Lights $13.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-87286-450-4
Spanish literary trickster Goytisolo exhibits fine satirical form in this bawdy, fictional tale of a Catholic cleric's sexual wanderings across history and borders. Father Trennes, the novel's determinedly priapic, oft-incarnated subject,...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Peter Bush, Translator Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (122p) ISBN 978-1-56478-044-7
In this rarefied experimental novel, Spanish novelist Goytisolo ( The Virtues of the Solitary Bird ) attempts to penetrate the 40-day waiting period between death and eternity when, according to Islamic tradition, the soul wanders still sheathed in...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Peter Bush, Translator North Point Press $18.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-86547-337-9
Goytisolo's lyrical, relentlessly introspective autobiography is more accessible than the experimental novels ( The Revindication of Count Julian , Juan the Landless ) which have made him a preeminent Spanish writer. His Basque-Cuban family's...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Peter Bush, Translator Serpent's Tail $24 (152p) ISBN 978-1-85242-659-0
The life of Eusebio, a homosexual dissident poet who was a contemporary of Lorca, is the subject of this collection of interrelated short narratives, a tour-de-force in its range of styles and perspectives. When members of a reading group decide to...
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Juan Goytisolo, Author, Peter Bush, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Dalkey Archive $13.95 (163p) ISBN 978-1-56478-527-5
This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery. Goytisolo writes in wildly run-on sentences (colons are heavily used), offering an...
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