Marks of Identity Juan Goytisolo

Name: Marks of Identity By Juan Goytisolo
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This title offers a revealing autobiographical reflection on exile. Goytisolo comes to the conclusion that every man carries his own exile about with him, wherever he lives. The narrator (Goytisolo) rejects Spain itself and searches instead for poetry the word without history.

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Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo

A Spanish exile returns from Paris to his family home in Barcelona. The first volume of Goytisolo's great trilogy which includes Count Julian and Juan the Landless, Marks of Identity is a revealing reflection on exile. Goytisolo comes to the conclusion that every man carries his own exile about with him, wherever he lives. The narrator (Goytisolo) rejects Spain itself and searches instead for poetry, the word without history' Marks of Identity is a shocking and influential work, and an affirmation of the ability of the individual to survive the political tyrannies of our time.

Marks of Identity Reviews

A masterpiece which should whet the appetites of British readers for the rest of the trilogy * Times Literary Supplement *
Juan Goytisolo is by some distance the most important living novelist from Spain ... and Marks of Identity is undoubtedly his most important novel, some would say the most significant work by a Spanish writer since 1939, a truly historic milestone * Guardian *

About Juan Goytisolo

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 Cervantes Prize in recognition of his life's work. He lived in Morocco until his death in 2017.

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GOR013927371

ISBN 13

9781852427672

ISBN 10

1852427671

Title

Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo

Author

Juan Goytisolo

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Year published

20030925

Number of pages

352

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins