Juan Goytisolo was born in 1931, the year the government of the Second Spanish Republic was elected. Though "a self-banished Spaniard" since 1956, he has, since the demise of Franco, regularly published articles in the Spanish press on political and cultural issues. He Is...

Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature is a series published by the University of South Carolina Press. What is somewhat mysterious is why Federico Garcia Lorca is the only other Spanish writer represented. Although Juan Goytisolo is well known in the Spanish-speaking...

In the following essay, Epps provides a reading of Goytisolo's Reivindicación del Conde don Julián “that will attempt to reveal at least some of the more troubling points at which Goytisolo's de(con)structive activity unwittingly betrays itself as faithful to the established tradition, in particular the tradition of women's oppression.”

In the following essay, Schaefer-Rodríguez asserts that Goytisolo's Paisajes después de la batalla represents a parody of the autobiographical genre.

In the following essay, Jordan analyzes chapter six of Juan sin tierra to show how Goytisolo's relationship with the tradition of Spanish literature moves from alienation to assimilation.