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The virtues of the solitary bird / Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Helen Lane.
LIBRA PQ6613.O79 V5513 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goytisolo, Juan.
- Series:
- Masks
- Standardized Title:
- Virtudes del p'ajaro solitario. English. 1991.
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 162 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Serpent's Tail, 1991.
- Summary:
- For Goytisolo, great writers are 'solitary birds' whose voice is an enchanting cry that pierces time. On his hospital bed, the persecuted narrator identifies with St John of the Cross, himself forced by the Inquisition to swallow his Treatise on the Qualities of the Solitary Bird. Through a scintillating succession of visions, soliloquies and ecstatic chants he converses with the banished saint. The agencies of repression have changed but, as in the past, a hideous revenge will be wrought on the heretic whose work is seen to be as deadly a contamination as AIDS. Four hundred years ago, St John creatively ransacked in his writing the cultures of Christianity, biblical Judaism and Muslim mysticism. Juan Goytisolo now pays rich homage, with atonal dissonance and constant invention.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Las virtudes del p'ajaro solitario.
- ISBN:
- 1852421754
- OCLC:
- 24638309
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