Bibliograph

Antagony, Luis Goytisolo ; translated from the Spanish by Brendan Riley

Type

Label

Antagony, Luis Goytisolo ; translated from the Spanish by Brendan Riley

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Antagony

Oclc number

1267752962

Responsibility statement

Luis Goytisolo ; translated from the Spanish by Brendan Riley

Summary

"Antagony surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The work, originally published as a tetralogy and now collected into one volume, follows the youth and education of Raúl Ferrer Gaminde, son of a well-connected, middle-class Catalan family that embraces Franco and Spanish Nationalism. Its potent drama plays out through Goytisolo's crisp, forceful presentation of youth, humor, optimism, rebellion, violence, sexual awakening, indulgence, punishment, and the realization of one's artistic vocation. Alternately modern and historical, Antagony displays intelligent realism, emotional gravity, profane beauty, brute vulgarity, sweeping rhetorical scope, and seamless transitions through long, streaming passages of narrative and introspection"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue / Ignacio Echavarria -- Recounting -- The greens of May down to the sea -- The wrath of Achilles -- Theory of knowledge

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