Count Julian (Masks) - Softcover

Goytisolo, Juan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852421584 ISBN 13: 9781852421588

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1990

Synopsis

egend has it that Count Julian opened the gates of Spain to the Moorish invaders and introduced eight hundred years of Islamic influence.  The narrator dreams of another invasion of his fatherland. Destruction will be total - myths central to the Hispanic psyche will crumble: the myth of the Christian knight always ready to do battle to defend the faith, the myth of the macho male and its inverse the virgin female, and the myth of the heroic Spanish personality forged in the rout of Islam. The hatred of Spain is intense but it is a hatred that recognizes the debt the exile owes to his homeland.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Cervanted Prize in recognition of his life's work. He lived in Morocco until his death in 2017.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1852421584
• ISBN 13: 9781852421588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224