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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.

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a blistering attack on authoritarianism and the cult of personality' - Publishers Weekly

Juan the Landless

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    A Paperback / softback by Juan Goytisolo, Peter Bush

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      Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/08/2009
      ISBN13: 9781564785275, 978-1564785275
      ISBN10: 1564785270

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      a blistering attack on authoritarianism and the cult of personality' - Publishers Weekly

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