Juan Goytisolo: Territories of Life and Writing (Paperback)

This collection of essays looks at the most recent work of Juan Goytisolo from a variety of perspectives and critical stances. The contributors, all specialists in the work of the Spanish author, employ theories of intertextuality, postmodernist irony, queer ethics and even the esoteric science of Hurufism to uncover the complexities of Goytisolo's creative practice, in particular his radical blurring of the generic boundaries between fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. Such challenging of genre conventions is seen as both integral to the author's own questioning of his identity as an expression of his radical dissidence and essential to the response his work evokes in the reader. Life and writing, autobiography and fiction, constitute the interconnecting poles of Goytisolo's artistic universe. The essays included in this volume explore the varying patterns of confluence of these twin strands in the writer's later work as a whole, but particularly in novels such as Las semanas del jardin (1997) and Carajicomedia (2000). The essays are set in context by a contribution from Juan Goytisolo himself in which he sums up his philosophy of life and writing as a pursuit of 'non-profitable knowledge'.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas, 17
Release date:	December 2007
Editors:	Stanley Black
Dimensions:	150 x 220 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911324-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Promotions
LSN:	3-03-911324-0
Barcode:	9783039113248

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