“In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.”
— Juan Goytisolo
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Category: faith
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“Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.”
— Juan Goytisolo
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Category: respect
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“In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.”
— Juan Goytisolo
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Category: poetry
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“When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.”
— Juan Goytisolo
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Category: architecture
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