The author of "Landscapes After the Battle", "Juan the Landless" and "The Virtues of the Solitary Bird" returns with a novel whose essential theme is love. Much of the wit and black humour in the book stems from the author's vision of sex as a great leveller, a cosmic joke perpetrated upon man.
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"It is natural that Goytisolo should immediately bring Joyce, Malcolm Lowry, Beckett and even Nabokov to mind . . . he is fully worthy to be considered among the major innovators of our time." --V.S. Pritchett, The New Yorker
"An epic work, to be read and re-read." --Mario Vargas Llosa
"[A] frank and solitary writer: on a crusade for truth. . . . He's an outsider—his own man. --Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"An epic work, to be read and re-read." --Mario Vargas Llosa
"[A] frank and solitary writer: on a crusade for truth. . . . He's an outsider—his own man. --Guillermo Cabrera Infante --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"An epic work, to be read and re-read." --Mario Vargas Llosa
"[A] frank and solitary writer: on a crusade for truth. . . . He's an outsider—his own man. --Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"An epic work, to be read and re-read." --Mario Vargas Llosa
"[A] frank and solitary writer: on a crusade for truth. . . . He's an outsider—his own man. --Guillermo Cabrera Infante --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish
Original Language: Spanish
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First published in 1980, Makbara demonstrates a radical use of linguistic and structural experimentation. Now that Goytisolo has loosened his ties to his mother country (since completing the Mendiola trilogy), his search for his "authentic self" is challenged by the indomitable formalizations of the spoken language. The pleasure of reading Makbara comes from a reading which does not depend on such linguistic verbal formalities, and deciding whether other forms of communication are possible. This novel is intricate and challenging on all levels in accord with Goytisolo's intent that his writing is not for everyone to read.
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- The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics) by Karl Marx in Front Matter
- Landscapes After the Battle Pb by Juan Goytisolo in Front Matter
- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Blaisdell in Front Matter
- Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo in Front Matter
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