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Juan Goytisolo

Spanish writer, poet and novelist

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Goytisolo and the second or maternal family name is Gay.

For decades, my name was more popular in police stations than bookshops,
and I do not mean to compliment the literary awareness of Spanish policemen.^[2]

Juan Goytisolo

Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanishpoet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.

Background

Juan Goytisolo was born to an upper class family. He claimed that this level of status, accompanied by the cruelties of his great-grandfather and the miserliness of his grandfather (discovered through the reading of old family letters and documents), was a major reason for his joining the Communist party

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Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo

September 4, 2023

Juan Goytisolo

Forbidden Territory & Realms of Strife

The double volume autobiography of the anti-Francoist writer Juan Goytisolo.

Forbidden Territory, as the first volume, is an intimate account of childhood perception and upbringing. It's intriguing for alternating between the first person narrative and an italicised second person *you* in its chapters. It balances the paradox of a narrator retelling childhood events with a retrospective psychological assessment, and addresses the young Juan, as if to help the child understand himself. Family dynamics, privilege and prejudices are laid out, depicting a world that is gradually lost, as swindlers and men with big ideas take advantage of an father who is prey to right-leaning men with fanciful ideas and innovations. For those who have read his brother Luis Goytisolo's Antagony, this will be familiar territory, but with an interrogative yet self-doubting autobiographical lens. As the protective cocoon of family wealth and ambition for st

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Autobiografía / Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo

Biography / Memoirs , 2017

GALAXIA GUTENBERG

Pages: 528

Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo, Goytisolo's masterful two-volume autobiography first published in the mid-1980s, broke new ground in Spanish letters with its introspective sexual and emotional honesty. It charts the writer’s unique journey from a Barcelona childhood violently disrupted by the Spanish civil war to student rebellion against the Francoist dictatorship and exile as a ‘self-banished Spaniard’ to Paris in 1956. In Paris, Goytisolo fell in love with Monique Lange, befriended Jean Genet, and discovered his own homosexuality as he supported the struggles for Algerian independence. His passionate, iconoclastic pen spares no one, least of all himself, in this striking portrayal of politics and sexuality in twentieth-century France and Spain.