Recounting: Antagony, Book I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781628971729)

Recounting surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The novel follows the youth and education of Ra l Ferrer Gaminde, son of a well-connected, middle-class Catalan family that embraces Franco and Spanish Nationalism. The novel's potent drama plays out through Goytisolo's crisp, forceful presentation of youth, humor, optimism, rebellion, violence, sexual awakening, indulgence, punishment, and the realization of one's artistic vocation. Alternately modern and historical, Recuento displays intelligent realism, emotional gravity, profane beauty, brute vulgarity, sweeping rhetorical scope, and seamless transitions through long, streaming passages of narrative and introspection.

Author: Luis Goytisolo
ISBN-10: 162897172X
ISBN-13: 9781628971729
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2017
Pages: 760
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 2.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017