Trapped in his apartment in an immigrant district of Paris, the narrator is far from the high life of museums, elegant restaurants and boutiques. Within this imprisonment, his thoughts oscillate between revolutionary terrorism and pre-pubescent sexuality - a concern he shares with Lewis Carroll. Mirroring the conventions of Arabic texts, Landscapes After the Battle is to be understood from the perspective of its end; an end where the relationship between writer, the reader and the written is revealed as playful and humorous. The appearance of the comic in a novel by Juan Goytisolo is unexpected; like Dracula at a haemophiliacs? convention.
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Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature. He lives in Morocco.
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Up until then, the evil-since some name must be given to this amazing conjunction of circumstances, unexpected only in appearance-had infiltrated gradually, in silence, by seemingly harmless stages, perhaps with the deliberate intention of not alarming the local residents, already sensitive, because of the heteroclite makeup of their neighborhood, to the loss of its original family atmosphere, its almost intimate ambience, what with the gradual penetration, the disastrous, disintegrating action of motley, foreign elements, whose colorful and finally overwhelming presence had been little by little transforming itself, there could not be the slightest doubt of it, into an unmistakable invasion. Read the first page
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Up until then, the evil-since some name must be given to this amazing conjunction of circumstances, unexpected only in appearance-had infiltrated gradually, in silence, by seemingly harmless stages, perhaps with the deliberate intention of not alarming the local residents, already sensitive, because of the heteroclite makeup of their neighborhood, to the loss of its original family atmosphere, its almost intimate ambience, what with the gradual penetration, the disastrous, disintegrating action of motley, foreign elements, whose colorful and finally overwhelming presence had been little by little transforming itself, there could not be the slightest doubt of it, into an unmistakable invasion. Read the first page
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