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

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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to…
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result…
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings,…
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that…
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that…
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the…
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the…
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his…
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual…
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from…
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became…

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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to… — Juan Goytisolo

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