Juan Goytisolo

Quarantine

Buch

Quarantine, a novel by one of Spain's most provocative writers, recounts the forty days in which, according to Islamic tradition, the soul wanders between death and eternity, still in possession of a tenuous, dreamlike body. After the unexpected death of a friend, the narrator-a writer like Goytisolo-follows her in his imagination into this otherworld where all kinds of implausible (or are they?) things occur.Meanwhile, television and radio report the 40-day war in the Persian Gulf, and images of war's destruction mingle with the narrator's vivid imagination of the torments of the underworld. Simultaneously, the narrator is writing the novel… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bush, Peter (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-56478-044-7
EAN: 9781564780447
Produktnummer: 18983296
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Seitenangabe: 112 S.

Über den Autor

Ne a Barcelone, en 1931, intellectuel engage, oppose au franquisme, Juan Goytisolo s'est tres tot exile a Paris. Aujourd'hui installe a Marrakech, il est devenu un critique implacable de la civilisation occidentale. Auteur d'une quinzaine de romans et de nombreux essais, il a recu, en 1985, le prix Europalia pour l'ensemble de son uvre, en 2002 le prix Octavio Paz, en 2004 le prix Juan Rulfo de litterature latino-americaine et caribeenne, et en novembre 2008 le prestigieux Prix national des Lettres espagnoles.Photo: Circulo de Lectores.