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Makbara
In Makbara, Juan Goytisolo--widely considered Spain's greatest living writer--again dazzles the reader with his energetic, stylistic prose, which he himself compares to a snake: cunning, sly, sinuous. But the themes in Makbara are perhaps more universal than in his earlier works. Makbara is full of its own kind of warmth, humor, and love. After all, makbara is an Arab word referring to the spot in North African cemeteries where young couples meet for romantic encounters. Sex, for Goytisolo, is clearly the greatest cosmic joke, the great leveller. "Sex," he says, "is above all freedom."
Book Details
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2008
- Pages: 270
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.80in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9781564785060
- Categories: • General
About the Author
Goytisolo, Juan: - Ne a Barcelone, en 1931, intellectuel engage, oppose au franquisme, Juan Goytisolo s'est tres tot exile a Paris. Aujourd'hui installe a Marrakech, il est devenu un critique implacable de la civilisation occidentale. Auteur d'une quinzaine de romans et de nombreux essais, il a recu, en 1985, le prix Europalia pour l'ensemble de son uvre, en 2002 le prix Octavio Paz, en 2004 le prix Juan Rulfo de litterature latino-americaine et caribeenne, et en novembre 2008 le prestigieux Prix national des Lettres espagnoles.Photo: Circulo de Lectores.
Lane, Helen: - Helen Lane contributed to In Praise of the Stepmother from Picador.
Praise for this book
"An epic work, to be read and re-read." -- Mario Vargas Llosa
"[A] frank and solitary writer: on a crusade for truth. . . . He's an outsider--his own man." -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"It is natural that Goytisolo should immediately bring Joyce, Malcolm Lowry, Beckett and even Nabokov to mind... he is fully worthy to be considered among the major innovators of our time." -- V.S. Pritchett
a hymn to sex as freedom' -The Guardian