Marks of Identity

Informationen zum Autor Juan Goytisolo (1931-2017) lived a life of political and cultural exile. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels, including Marks of Identity , were banned in Spain. After leaving Spain, he lived mostly in France and Morocco. Many of his novels have been translated into English, including The Young Assassins , Count Julian , Juan the Landless , Makbara , The Marx Family Saga , and Quarantine . Klappentext An exile returns to Spain from France to find that he is repelled by the fascism of Franco's Spain and drawn to the world of Muslim culture. In Marks of Identity , Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, speaks for a generation of Spaniards who were small children during the Spanish Civil War, grew up under a stifling dictatorship, and, in many cases, emigrated in desperation from their dying country. Upon his return, the narrator confronts the most controversial political, religious, social, and sexual issues of our time with ferocious energy and elegant prose. Torn between the Islamic and European worlds around him, he finds both ultimately unsatisfactory. In the end, only displacement survives.

Product details

• Authors: Juan Goytisolo, Juan/ Rabassa Goytisolo, Gregory Rabassa
• Assisted by: Gregory Rabassa (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9781564784537
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-453-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Spanish Literature; Spanish Literature Series; Spanish Literature Series; Spanish Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV