The Virtues of the Solitary Bird
The Virtues of the Solitary Bird
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Summary
Weaving together elements of philosophy, history and the terror of the Plague, this novel by the Spanish author Juan Goytisolo was inspired by the story of St John of the Cross.
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The Virtues of the Solitary Bird by Juan Goytisolo
For Goytisolo, great writers are ?solitary birds? whose voices are an enchanting cry that pierces time. On his hospital bed, the persecuted narrator identifies with St John of the Cross. Through the scintillating successions of visions, soliloquies and ecstatic chants he converses with the banished saints. The agencies of repression have changed but, as in the past, a hideous revenge will be wrought on the heretic. Four hundred years ago, St John creatively ransacked in his writing the cultures of Christianity, biblical Judaism and Muslim mysticism. Juan Goytisolo now pays rich homage, with atonal dissonance and constant invention.
'The most important living novelist from Spain? Guardian ?A transgressive, violatory, heretical text..the work of Juan Goytisolo defines from a Spanish point of view the permanant revolution of the contemporary novel. Surrounded by anachronism, chauvinism, the remnants of realism, the frivolousness of entertainment and lightness, rationalist terorism and psyche unease, the geography of the modern novel uses these boundaries in order to transcend them and, against all opposition, enlarge the horizon of human possibilities? Carlos Fuentes ?Juan Goytisolo is one of the most rigorous and original contemporary writers. His books are a strange mixture of pitiless autobiography, the debunking of mythologies and conformist fetishes, passionate exploration of the periphery of the West - in particular of the Arab world which he knows intimately - and audacious linguistic experiment? Mario Vargas Llosa
Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature. He lives in Morocco.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781852421755 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852421754 |
| Title | The Virtues of the Solitary Bird |
| Author | Juan Goytisolo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 162 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |