Count Julian

by Juan Goytisolo, Helen Lane (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564784841
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2007
Series:	Spanish Literature
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Helen Lane contributed to In Praise of the Stepmother from Picador.

Editorial Reviews

Goytisolo has a maniacal self-irony and turbulent, over-stitched surrealist streak that make Celine look like Sir Walter Scott' -Kirkusreviews

Dalkey Archive Press

From the Publisher

Originally published in French in 1968, Gombrowicz's autobiographical novel was released in English in 1973. The author discusses the place of the writer in the world and the events of his life. Goytisolo's 1974 outing is the vitriolic narration of a man exiled from Spain. His rage is so great that only the complete destruction of the country and Spanish society will satisfy him.

—Michael Rogers

Library Journal