All 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. Assimilate
- But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication… Beginning
- In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes… Belief
- 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… Abuse
- 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… Accentuated
- 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… All
- 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… Based
- Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. Alienation
- The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. Abandon
- My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. Exclusively
- 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… Alienated
- 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. Became
- In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading. Allow
- 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… Beyond
- The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as… Achieve
- 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… According
- For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to… Acquire