- Paperback
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail. (2003)
- ASIN: B00266MCR0
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Product Details |
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Garden of Earthly Delights,
By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Garden of Secrets (Hardcover)
Borrowing the title from Hieronymous Bosch's painting as a way to present this book is cogent. Juan Goytisolo is considered Spain's foremost writer and if this small book, THE GARDEN OF SECRETS, is any indication, his standing is well supported. To postulate the fate of a well know poet - Eusebio - who was close to Lorca and other writers during the Franco period of Spain, a poet who "disappeared" about the same time as Lorca, the author has gathered 28 literary people in a garden in Marrakesh to discuss the life and possible fates of the honored poet. We have, then, 28 versions of what happened to Eusebio, and the stories range from campy, to wild, to tragic, to nationalistic. Goytisolo is a linguist who mixes French, Arabic, Spanish - all the voices in the intrigue laden Marrakech, Morocco - and translates in footnotes and interactive conversations so that we never lose track of the story lines. This little book is somewhat like the story of the three blind men describing an elephant, or even the old Steve Allen show which featured characters from many periods sharing reponses to questions colored by their own histories. A delightful little diversion, this, and yet it is more. It is poetry, Spanish history, an exploration of the gay writers so prominent in Spanish history, and a beautiful introduction to the wonders of Marrakech. Credit must also be given to the translator - very sensitive work. If you are as unfamiliar with Goyistolo as I, thne I highly recommend this little book as a rapt starting point in your discovery of ANOTHER great writer of our times.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence:
On the basis of a short review of a work whose author I'd rather not remember, referring to the discovery in a suitcase without owner of two quite distinctive series of poems attributed without proof to Eusebio, interned at the request of his family in the military psychiatric centre in Melilla at the start of the July '36 rebellion, from which he escaped, according to one version, aided and abetted by a soldier from the Rif, or where, according to another, he underwent 'rehabilitation treatment' provided by a few Fascist psychiatrists, we, a Circle of active, passionate readers in a provincial city, decided to write a collective story based on the poet's elusive history, gathered together over the course of three weeks in the benign summer shade of a delightfully cultivated garden. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bab Dukkala, Alphonse van Worden, Eugenio Asensio, Ibn Arabi, Comrade Basilio, Foreign Legion, Madame Caroline, Antonio Primo de Rivera, Buya Omar, Mary Pickford, Mulay Brahim New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
On the basis of a short review of a work whose author I'd rather not remember, referring to the discovery in a suitcase without owner of two quite distinctive series of poems attributed without proof to Eusebio, interned at the request of his family in the military psychiatric centre in Melilla at the start of the July '36 rebellion, from which he escaped, according to one version, aided and abetted by a soldier from the Rif, or where, according to another, he underwent 'rehabilitation treatment' provided by a few Fascist psychiatrists, we, a Circle of active, passionate readers in a provincial city, decided to write a collective story based on the poet's elusive history, gathered together over the course of three weeks in the benign summer shade of a delightfully cultivated garden. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bab Dukkala, Alphonse van Worden, Eugenio Asensio, Ibn Arabi, Comrade Basilio, Foreign Legion, Madame Caroline, Antonio Primo de Rivera, Buya Omar, Mary Pickford, Mulay Brahim New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 13
books:
See all 13 books this book cites
8
books
cite this book:
See all 8 books citing this book
- Count Julian (Masks) by Juan Goytisolo in Front Matter
- The Virtues of the Solitary Bird (Masks/Begins on Page 11/No Capitalization Or Indentation) by Juan Goytisolo in Front Matter
- Juan the Landless (Masks) by Juan Goytisolo in Front Matter
- Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes on page 149
- Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra on page 149
See all 13 books this book cites
- The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Harriet Turner on page 209, and Back Matter
- The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (New York Review Books Classics) by W.S. Merwin in Front Matter
- Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain (Media and Popular Culture) by Kathleen Glenn on page 140
- Footprint Marrakech & the High Atlas Handbook by Justin McGuinness on page 74
- The Lonely Hearts Club (A Five Star Title) by Raúl Nuñez in Back Matter
See all 8 books citing this book
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
