SOURCE: “Goytisolo Through the Looking Glass: Paisajes después de la batalla, Autobiography and Parody,” in Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 19, No. 2, Fall, 1986, pp. 13-29.

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 brief moments, I could describe to you walks, breathless flights, pursuits, in countries of the world where I shall never go.

Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal

The Sufi's book does not consist of ink and letters: it is naught but a heart white as snow.

The Mathnawi of Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

… the pornographer has it in his power to become a terrorist of the imagination, a sexual guerrilla whose purpose is to overturn our most basic notions of these relations.

Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman

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