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Trapped in his apartment in an immigrant district of Paris, the narrator is far from the high life of museums, elegant restaurants and boutiques. Within this imprisonment, his thoughts oscillate between revolutionary terrorism and pre-pubescent sexuality - a concern he shares with Lewis Carroll. Mirroring the conventions of Arabic texts, Landscapes After the Battle is to be understood from the perspective of its end; an end where the relationship between writer, the reader and the written is revealed as playful and humorous. The appearance of the comic in a novel by Juan Goytisolo is unexpected; like Dracula at a haemophiliacs? convention.
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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. He lives in Morocco.
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- PublisherSeaver Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0805003932
- ISBN 13 9780805003932
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages159
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Book Description hardcover. 1st edition. New York. 1987. May 1987. Seaver Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0805003932. Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane. 159 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Steve Jenkins. keywords: Literature Translated Spain . FROM THE PUBLISHER - This engaging, gritty satire by Goytisolo, an outstanding Spanish novelist who left during Franco's regime, offers a skewed tour of the tough new Paris street life radiating outward from the neighborhood of the Sentier metro. In 78 rapid-fire vignettes, the hero as 'monster' in trench coat and felt hat sets out from his studio on the Rue Poissonniere to indulge in his 'maniacal, obsessive, almost canine nosing about.' He prowls for little girls. He studies the subway and the movie-house, caves where weird fantasies are played out. He favors pop culture: the waxwork museums over the Louvre and the graffiti that reveal the city's foreign influx. The Sentier quarter is a microcosm of Paris, with its milling, dark-skinned populace of Arabs, Turks and Africans, subject to grueling poverty and police harassment. Around the city hovers the xenophobic spirit of 'the commandos of Charles Martel,' who centuries ago drove back the Saracen hordes. Everywhere, scraps of history and the classics are snipped and glued into Goytisolo's fresh, absurdist text. - PIBLISHERS WEEKLY. (original title: Paisajes despues de la batalla, 1982). inventory #26456 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z26456
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