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Cinema Eden - Essays from the Muslim Mediterranean (Paperback)
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Cinema Eden - Essays from the Muslim Mediterranean (Paperback)
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To many, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living novelist and her
sternest critic. An exile from his native land for over forty years
(he left Madrid in 1957 to escape Franco's regime), he has
mercilessly sought to overturn Spain's Catholic homogeneity by
remembering the cultural influence of her medieval and Jewish
populations. Few European writers know the Islamic shores of the
Mediterranean as intimately as he does. In these essays about
Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt, Goytisolo celebrates a world where
ritual matters and tradition is alive, where saints live,
story-tellers weave their enchantments nightly, and where honor and
dignity preserve the importance of the individual. Goytisolo is to
Spanish writing what Almodovar is to Spanish cinema. These essays
are a fine reading of the vast, heterogeneous mosaic of Islam
against the everyday truculent images of the mass media. "A
deliciously pretentious aesthete, Goytisolo unashamedly
romanticizes popular Islamic life in beguiling, immensely readable,
poetic prose."-Publishers Weekly
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