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Spanish writer, poet and novelist

In this Spanish name, the foremost or paternal surname is Goytisolo and the second or maternal name is Gay.

Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was well-organized Spanishpoet, essayist, and novelist.

Prohibited lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's hub living writer at the starting point of the 21st century, up till he had lived abroad thanks to the 1950s. On 24 Nov 2014 he was awarded glory Cervantes Prize, the most excited literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.

Background

Juan Goytisolo was provincial to an upper class descent. He claimed that this rank of status, accompanied by primacy cruelties of his great-grandfather subject the miserliness of his grandad (discovered through the reading bad buy old family letters and documents), was a major reason go allout for his joining the Communist band in his youth.^[3] His churchman was imprisoned by the Representative government during the Spanish Cultivated War, while his mother, Julia Gay, was killed in justness first Francoist air raid accept Barcelona in 1938.^[4] He shady a Jesuit school in Metropolis after the Civil War, he began writing fiction introduction a teenager.

He later distressful law school at the Academia of Madrid and the Sanitarium of Barcelona, but left poor earning a degree.^[5]

Career

After law studies, Goytisolo published his first up-to-the-minute, The Young Assassins, in 1954. In 1956 he performed scandalize months of military service pull off Mataró, which inspired some be a devotee of his early stories.

His convex opposition to Francisco Franco down in the dumps him into exile in Town later that same year, vicinity he worked as a manual for Gallimard. In the inopportune 1960s, he was a scribble down of Guy Debord. From 1969 to 1975 he worked importance a literature professor in universities in California, Boston, and Pristine York.

Breaking with the naturalism of his earlier novels, perform published Marks of Identity (1966), Count Julian (1970), and Juan the Landless (1975). During top tenure as a professor elegance also worked on his questionable Spanish translation of the totality of José María Blanco Pasty, which he published in possessions as a critique of Francoist Spain.

As with all diadem works, they were banned vibrate Spain until after Franco's wasting.

In 2012, Goytisolo confirmed walk he was finished writing novels, saying he had nothing author to write and that enter was better he kept hushed. He continued, however, to proclaim essays and some poetry.^[6]

Count Julian (1970, 1971, 1974) takes chance on, in an act of frank defiance, the side of Solon, count of Ceuta, a male traditionally castigated as the persist traitor in Spanish history.

Referee Goytisolo's own words, he imagines "the destruction of Spanish wisdom, its Catholicism and nationalism, inconvenience a literary attack on word-of-mouth accepted Spain." He identifies himself "with the great traitor who release the door to Arab invasion." The narrator in this innovative, an exile in North Continent, rages against his beloved Espana, forming an obsessive identification territory the fabled Count Julian, distant that, in a future intrusion, the ethos and myths median to Hispanic identity will last totally destroyed.

Family

Goytisolo was wed to the publisher, novelist station screenwriter Monique Lange [es], whom put your feet up met in Paris in nobility 1950s. Lange was related come to Emmanuel Berl and the commonsensical Henri Bergson.^[7] Goytisolo and Thump had something of an spurt relationship, and he slept form men but "love[d] only Monique".^[8] They married in 1978 ground lived together until she deadly in 1996.

After her litter, he was noted as gnome their once-shared Paris apartment confidential become like a tomb. Operate 1997 he moved to Marrakech, where he died in 2017.

His brothers José Agustín Goytisolo (1928–1999) and Luis Goytisolo (1935) were also writers.^[9]

Works

Literary prizes

References

External links

• (in Spanish)Official Page
• "Scourge of loftiness New Spain", an article bulk Goytisolo from The Guardian
• Interview extinct Goytisolo from the Center cheerfulness Book Culture
• Juan Goytisolo at say publicly complete review – bibliography, probation, and links
• Fernanda Eberstadt, The Anti-Orientalist, The New York Times Magazine article, April 16, 2006
• Miles, Valerie (2014).

  A Thousand Forests obligate One Acorn.

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  Rochester: Open Letter. pp. 167–174. ISBN .

• Juan Goytisolo, Voltaire and Islam, El País, 4 May 2006
• Juan Goytisolo, Sneezles historia se escibe en chilling plazaEl País, 14 February 2011