Juan Goytisolo Quotes

• The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Vitality, Culture, Influence

  "Scourge of the new Spain" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2000.

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• The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

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  Inspiration, Innocence, Language

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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

  Respect, Country, Expression

  "Understanding Juan Goytisolo". Book by Randolph D. Pope, 1995.

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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.

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  Drama, Criticism, Narrative

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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.

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  Arte, Escritura, Carácter

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• El propósito fundamental de una novela como El conde Julián es lograr la unidad de objeto y medio de representación, la fusión de la traición como esquema y la traición como lenguaje.

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  Mean, Unity, Fusion

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• In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

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  Reading, Levels, Diverse

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• As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

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  Clarity, Companion, My Own

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• I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

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  Land, Judgment, Stranger

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• Mi exilio no fue sólo físico, motivado exclusivamente por razones políticas; fue también un exilio moral, social, ideológico y sexual.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Political, Redemption, Moral

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• Pero la España que surgió en torno a 1960, a partir de su milagro económico, creado por la invasión de turistas, ya no puede dar lugar a una dedicación apasionada por parte de sus intelectuales, y menos aún por parte de los intelectuales extranjeros.

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  Dedication, Miracle, Tourism

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• And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

  Juan Goytisolo

  White, Spain, Elements

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• A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

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  Artist, Expression, Style

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• And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

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  Unique, Discovery, Important

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• 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.

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  Block, War, Europe

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• En tiempos en los que predomina la fe o la esperanza religiosa o política, el escritor funciona totalmente al unísono con la sociedad y expresa los sentimientos, creencias y esperanzas de ésta en perfecta armonía.

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  Religious, Perfect, Political

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