biography
pronunciation:
[goytisohloh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Barcelona, NE Spain, the younger brother of José Agustín Goytisolo. Outside Spain he is the best-known novelist of his generation Juegos de manos (1954), which deals with the problem of juvenile delinquents from well-to-do families provided with everything except a reason for their privileged existence, was his first book to gain wide recognition. Duelo en el Paraíso (1955) is another study of young people, this time during wartime. The trilogy El mañana efímero, from the title of a poem in Antonio Machado's Campos de Castilla, consists of Fiestas (1958), El circo (1957), and La resaca (1958). His essays, Problemas de la novela (1959), were followed by short stories Para vivir aquí (1960) and the novels Fin de fiesta (1962) and Reivindicación del Conde Don Julián (1969), in which he uses the hero's release from decorum under the influence of hasish to deploy a rapidly-broadening linguistic ability. The book ranges freely beyond its nominal theme of exile but is centred on his gloomy view of Spain under the Franco regime. Other works include a travel book Campos de Níjar (1960) and further essays Señas de identidad (1966) and El furgón de cola (1967). |
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