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The
2004 Award
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A
Cock-Eyed Comedy by
Juan Goytisolo Publisher
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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works in mysterious ways…and in A Cock-Eyed Comedy, Juan
Goytisolo takes on the Spanish Catholic church. Father Trennes, our hero, is like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of history. His most recent incarnation is as a member of the conservative right wing Catholic organisation, Opus Dei, whose founder, Josemaría Escrivá, has just been canonized. A cast of historical characters, including philosopher Roland Barthes, Jean Genet and Argentine writer Manuel Puig, meet and mingle with a host of imaginary ones in an orgiastic romp until AIDS takes its toll. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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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 and has since written novels, essays and two volumes of autobiography. Landscapes after the Battle, Makbara, The Virtues of the Solitary Bird and his extraordinary trilogy, Marks of Identity, Count Julian and Juan the Landless, as well as The Garden of Secrets, are also published by Serpents Tail. Juan Goytisolo now lives in Marrakesh. The
translator, Peter Bush is the translator of Nuria Amat, Juan
Carlos Onetti and Luis Sepúlveda amongst
others. He is also director of the British Centre for Literary Translation
at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. |
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