<i>Recounting</i> surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The novel follows the youth and education of Raúl Ferrer Gaminde, son of a well-connected, middle-class Catalan family that embraces Franco and Spanish Nationalism. The novel’s potent drama plays out through Goytisolo’s crisp, forceful presentation of youth, humor, optimism, rebellion, violence, sexual awakening, indulgence, punishment, and the realization of one’s artistic vocation. Alternately modern and historical, Recuento displays intelligent realism, emotional gravity, profane beauty, brute vulgarity, sweeping rhetorical scope, and seamless transitions through long, streaming passages of narrative and introspection.

Recounting: Antagony, Book I (Spanish Literature)

Literature & Fiction

GOYTISOLO, LUIS

Literary

Dalkey Archive Press

<p>Review\n"The story is long but engaging as the novel morphs into a memorial to a humanist civilization under siege, its icons not just Joyce, but also other modernists such as Proust and Hermann Broch. It holds up just fine in such company."―Kirkus Reviews\nAntagony surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The work, originally published as a tetralogy and now collected into one volume, follows the youth and education of Raúl Ferrer Gaminde, son of a well-connected, middle-class Catalan family that embraces Franco and Spanish Nationalism. Its potent drama plays out through Goytisolo’s crisp, forceful presentation of youth, humor, optimism, rebellion, violence, sexual awakening, indulgence, punishment, and the realization of one’s artistic vocation. Alternately modern and historical, Antagony displays intelligent realism, emotional gravity, profane beauty, brute vulgarity, sweeping rhetorical scope, and seamless transitions through long, streaming passages of narrative and introspection.</p>

Antagony (Spanish Literature)

TRES COMEDIAS EJEMPLARES GOYTISOLO (CUENTOS COMPLETOS) (Spanish Edition)

Alfaguara

Alfaguara. Madrid. 1965. 18 cm. 258 p., 1 h. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Cela Trulock, Jorge 1932-. Por Jorge C. Trulock .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. Cubierta deslucida. Depósito legal: M 8212-1965

Recuento (Antagonía) (Spanish Edition)

EDICIONES ALFAGUARA

Escalera Hacia El Cielo (Espasa Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)

Espasa-Calpe

Barcelona. 20 cm. 325 p., 3 h. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Biblioteca Breve: Novela', numero coleccion(441). Goytisolo, Luis 1935-. Por Luis Goytisolo .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-322-0345-9

La cólera de Aquiles (Biblioteca breve) (Spanish Edition)

Seix-Barral

Diario de 360

Barcelona. 13x19 cm. 208 p. Encuadernación en rúst. de editorial. Colección 'Literatura contemporánea Seix Barral' .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-322-2015-9; 84-322-2015-9

Las Afueras

Esta es la primera novela escrita por Luis Goytisolo despues de Antagonia. Los primeros capitulos nos ofrecen diversos aspectos de la vida de A, un hombre que en todos los terrenos ha conseguido siempre lo que se ha propuesto. Solo un problema: la frustracion de sus impulsos creadores, el sacrificio de su antigua vocacion literaria en aras de su posicion social. Una preocupacion que parece ir en aumento segun progresa el relato y A se entrega a la redaccion de sus anotaciones y a la evocacion de los recuerdos -cada vez mas lejanos- que aparece otra, no formulada explicitamente pero no por ello menos profunda: la dificultad de establecer la linea que separa la locura de la cordura. Elementos que, poco a poco, trocaran el desenfado inicial del relato en un impreciso, y por ello aun mas desazonante, clima de inquietud. / The first chapters of the novel offer up diverse aspects of the life of A, a man who in all environments has always managed (almost without trying) to achieve what he intends to. There is just one problem: the frustration of his creative impulses, the sacrifice of his old literary vocation in exchange for his social and economic position. This worry seems to grow as the story continues and A devotes himself to the writing of notes and the evocation of his (increasingly distant) memories that are generated by the examination of his life. Parallel to this worry, another appears, not explicitly formulated but no less profound: the difficulty of establishing the line that separates madness from sanity. These elements, little by little, transform the initial ease of the story into an imprecise, and therefore more upsetting, climate of anxiety.

Estela del fuego que se aleja (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

Editorial Anagrama

El sueño de San Luis

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