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AUTHOR: Juan Goytisolo
TRANSLATOR: Gregory Rabassa
PUBLISHER: Dalkey Archive Press
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 1966
PAGES: 352
ISBN: 9781564784537
AWARDS:
Marks of Identity
by Juan Goytisolo
An exile returns to Spain from France to find that he is repelled by the fascism of Franco’s Spain and drawn to the world of Muslim culture. In this novel, Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain’s most celebrated novelists, speaks for a generation of Spaniards who were only small children during the Spanish Civil War, grew up under a stifling dictatorship, and, in many cases, emigrated in desperation from their dying country. Upon his return, the narrator confronts the most controversial political, religious, social, and sexual issues of our time with ferocious energy and elegant prose. Torn between the Islamic and European worlds around him, he finds both ultimately unsatisfactory. In the end, only displacement survives
INCLUSION CRITERIA
Author Juan Goytisolo was attracted to people of multiple genders, and explores this theme in Marks of Identity. Unknown if specific label is used on-page.
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