Background
Juan Goytisolo was born on January 5, 1931 in Barcelona, Spain, to Julia Gay and José María Goytisolo, a chemical company executive and an arch-conservative of Basque ancestry.
( Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the ...)
Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the Landless), this story of an exiled Spaniard confronts all of Goytisolo's own worst fears about fascist Spain.
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Juan Goytisolo was born on January 5, 1931 in Barcelona, Spain, to Julia Gay and José María Goytisolo, a chemical company executive and an arch-conservative of Basque ancestry.
He studied law at the universities of Barcelona and Madrid and spent much time in Paris.
Juan is a leading figure of the "Mid-Century Generation, " which, beginning in the 1950's, stimulated a remarkable resurgence in the Spanish novel.
Rejecting the earlier concept of the philosopher Jose Ortega Y Gasset of an elitist, dehumanized literature that appeals only to select minorities, he employs a sharp objective realism in portraying the life of the contemporary Spaniard.
One of the main influences on his work has been the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939).
His first novel, Juegos de manos (1954; The Young Assassins, 1959) , is concerned with the youthful victims of the war.
Perhaps most typical of these novels is La isla (1961; "The Island").
The autobiographical Coto Vedado (1985) and the apocalyptic Paisajes despuèsdespues de la batalla (1982; Landscapes After the Battle, (1987) shed much light on the animating spirit and concerns of the novels. Goytisolo has also published travel books, short stories, and theoretical essays on the novel.
( Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the ...)
Goytisolo was married to the publisher, novelist and screenwriter Monique Lange.