Juan the Landless (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564785275)

Juan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. The new text focuses on Goytisolo's surreal exploration and rejection of his own roots, Catholic Spain's repression of Muslims, Jews and gays, his ancestors' exploitation of Cuban slaves and his own forging of a language at once poetic, politic and ironic that celebrates the erotic act of writing and and the anarchic joy of being the ultimate outsider. In Juan the Landless the greatest living novelist from Spain defiantly re-invents tradition and the world as a man without a home, without a country, in praise of pariahs.

Author: Juan Goytisolo
ISBN-10: 1564785270
ISBN-13: 9781564785275
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2009
Pages: 163
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/25/2009 pg. 37