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Goytisolo, Juan --- Goytisolo, J. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Goitisolo, Juan --- Ghūytiṣūlū, Khwān --- Goytisolo Gay, Juan --- Gay, Juan Goytisolo --- خوان غويتصولو --- غويتيصولو، خوان

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Goytisolo, Juan --- Goytisolo, J. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thematology --- Spanish literature --- Goitisolo, Juan --- Ghūytiṣūlū, Khwān --- Goytisolo Gay, Juan --- Gay, Juan Goytisolo --- خوان غويتصولو --- غويتيصولو، خوان

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This book assesses Goytisolo's contribution to cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and revises the prevailing critical interpretation of his fiction, arguing that his works represent an ethical engagement with postmodernist theory rather than an illustration of it. This monograph offers two new perspectives on Spanish writer, Juan Goytisolo. First, under the themes of authorship and dissidence, it integrates his writing across several genres, providing a rounded assessment of his contribution to cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and arguing that resistance to repressive discourses characterizes his essays and autobiographies as much as his fiction. Second, it revises the prevailing critical interpretation of Goytisolo's fiction by building on four premises: that his novels are less clearly oppositional than prevailing interpretations imply; that, in order to engage with discourses of identity, he employs an idiom which,contrary to his own statements, is not a poststructuralist autonomous world of words; that a textual practice grounded in the recognizable experience of post-Civil War Spain, rather than one which seeks out the realm of pure textuality, is essential to Goytisolo's subversive political intentions; and that the autobiographical element of much of his work constitutes a more complex narrative aesthetic than has been appreciated. The book argues that ifGoytisolo's work is interpreted as an ethical engagement with postmodernist theory, rather than as an illustration of it, then certain contradictions for which he has been criticized are seen in a new and valuable light. ALISON RIBEIRO DE MENEZES is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at University College Dublin.

Goytisolo, Juan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Goitisolo, Juan --- Ghūytiṣūlū, Khwān --- Goytisolo Gay, Juan --- Gay, Juan Goytisolo --- خوان غويتصولو --- غويتيصولو، خوان --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.

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Spanish literature --- Novelists, Spanish --- -Spanish novelists --- Biography --- Goytisolo, Juan --- Goitisolo, Juan --- Ghūytiṣūlū, Khwān --- خوان غويتصولو --- غويتيصولو، خوان --- Biography. --- Goytisolo, Juan., --- -Biography --- Goytisolo, J. --- Spanish novelists --- Goytisolo, Juan. --- Taifas (royaumes) --- Espagne --- Goytisolo Gay, Juan --- Gay, Juan Goytisolo

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Juan Goytisolo is arguably Spain's foremost contemporary novelist. This book is one of the few major studies in English to examine all of his mature works, from Señas de identidad in 1966 to Las semanas del jardín, published in 1997. It focuses on the interface between the thematic content of the novels and its formal expression, viewing this as the crucial nexus of their meaning. Goytisolo's writing is, in his own words, a 'commitment of myself ... for a transformation of the world'. The Poetics of Contagion dissects the nature of the relationship between writer and reader to show how Goytisolo's political commitment is reflected in his work.

Politics in literature. --- Political science in literature --- Goytisolo, Juan, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Goytisolo, Juan --- Goytisolo, J. --- Political and social views. --- Goitisolo, Juan --- Ghūytiṣūlū, Khwān --- Goytisolo Gay, Juan --- Gay, Juan Goytisolo --- خوان غويتصولو --- غويتيصولو، خوان