Critical Essay by Mary E. Giles
Juegos de manos [The Young Assassins] … reveals a … consistent and coherent treatment of the theme [of the scapegoat figure].
The narrative of Juegos ...
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Critical Essay by Reed Anderson
Señas de identidad [Marks of Identity] is the detailed and intimate, yet broad and panoramic exploration of a personal crisis. Álvaro Mendiola, the autho...
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Critical Essay by V. S. Pritchett
[The subject of exile] was established in "Marks of Identity" and "Count Julian;" now "Juan the Landless" … complete...
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Critical Essay by Ronald Schwartz
Señas de identidad [Marks of Identity] is a thrilling, ironic, trenchantly pessimistic, brilliant novel…. (p. 193)
[It] is a work of total desperati...
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Critical Essay by Dru Dougherty
Before his self-exile in 1963, Goytisolo was just one of the young neo-realists who kept alive the issue of social justice following the close of Spain's Civil ...
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Critical Essay by Kessel Schwartz
Goytisolo represents much that is typical of the new writers in his interpretation of a Spain haunted by its Civil War memories and subjected to a political and reli...
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Critical Essay by Kessel Schwartz
Goytisolo's women, trapped by life and history, offer us a deformed and grotesque glimpse of what is generally accepted as the feminine essence. Part of this ...
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Critical Essay by Reed Anderson
[In La reivindicación del Conde Don Julián (Count Julian)] we are propelled into the world of powerful and militantly aggressive satire. (p. 366)
[Goy...
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Critical Essay by Genaro J. PÉrez
[Campos de Níjar (1960) and La chanca (1962)] are travelogues of an unusual type since the narrator uses the genre to criticize the Spanish government ...
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Critical Essay by Genaro J. PÉrez
Señas de identidad, published in 1966, is the first of Goytisolo's [Mendiola Trilogy], comprised of his most recent three novels that reflect a ...
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Critical Essay by Michael Ugarte
Throughout Goytisolo's literary production, but especially in the later works (1966 to the present), there is a pronounced desire to re-evaluate and reorder th...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Schraibman
Goytisolo continues in Makbara his earlier explorations into the language and structure of the novel, his attacks on traditional bourgeois twentieth-century consum...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Schraibman
It is indeed curious that Goytisolo begins [La chanca] his first-person account of a visit to Almería by asserting that Spaniards cannot stand an absence fr...
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In the following essay, Schaefer-Rodríguez asserts that Goytisolo's Paisajes después de la batalla represents a parody of the autobiographical genre.
With the memory of these b...
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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 a...
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In the following review, Clark praises Goytisolo's La cuarentena as an “exceptional tale.”
An intriguing, postmodern novel, Juan Goytisolo's La cuarentena will prove abs...
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In the following review, Kagaroff describes Goytisolo's The Virtues of the Solitary Bird as “the story of the independent thinker throughout history, flushed out by those fearful of ...
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In the following review, Hopkinson praises Goytisolo's “impressively catholic selections” from his collection of essays, Saracen Chronicles, but complains that the author has over...
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In the following review, the critic concludes that Goytisolo's “Quarantine is an intriguing multilayered novel, but one at times more powerful in concept than in execution.”
Sp...
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In the following essay, Squires traces Goytisolo's evolution through his first five novels, specifically his relationship to myth.
Critical interest in Juan Goytisolo has focused most intent...
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Six teaches at Queen Mary College, London, and is the author of Juan Goytisolo: The Case for Chaos. In the following review, she praises Goytisolo's The Marx Family Saga for remaining humorous ...
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In the following essay, Vilaseca describes Goytisolo's transformation as exhibited in his two-volume autobiography Coto vedado and En los reinos de taifa and how such a transformation has perso...
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In the following essay, Herzberger analyzes how language functions in Goytisolo's Señas de identidad. He argues that “Goytisolo's literary language is not ‘new, ...
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In the following essay, Braun discusses Goytisolo's parodic use of quotations from Unamuno in his Reivindicación del Conde Don Julián.
Count Julian was the legendary traitor wh...
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In the following essay, Schaefer-Rodríguez analyzes the role of travel in Goytisolo's work. She asserts that “the importance of Campos de Níjar … resides in the fact...
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In the following essay, Sobejano-Morán discusses the naming process in Juan Goytisolo's Reivindicación del Conde Don Julián, and in Luis Goytisolo's Recuento. He con...
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Six teaches at Queen Mary College, London, and is the author of Juan Goytisolo: The Case for Chaos. In the following essay, Six traces the development of the “Little Red Riding Hood” sto...
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In the following review, Whalen lauds Goytisolo's Landscapes after the Battle.
“Please, no talk about ‘experimentation,’ ‘verbal syntagma,’ ‘levels ...
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In the following essay, Six delineates the features common to Goytisolo's Juan sin tierra and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy focusing on sexuality and space versus time.
Las nocion...
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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.
In...
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Critical Essay by Mary E. Giles
