Luis Goytisolo’s epic novel, Antagonía, whose four volumes contain a theory of knowledge, engages the reader in a dialogue about the life experience and the meaning and creation of reality. Approximations to Luis Goytisolo’s 'Antagonía' examines the symbols, images, and narrative structures that link the novel into a complex whole. These devices build upon one another, acquiring ever-greater complexity as layers of meaning and associations are added. In the end, however, they collapse into a richly dense and surprisingly simple fact: humans always experience the world around them from a unique and individual point of view, yet they are always connected to a broad, collective web of energy that perpetuates the life cycle. This book will be of interest to scholars of Goytisolo’s work as well as to those reading his novel for the first time.

Approximations to Luis Goytisolo's «Antagonía» (Wor(l)ds of Change: Latin American and Iberian Literature)

Literature & Fiction

DeWeese, Pamela J.

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Luis Goytisolo’s novel, 360º Diary, constitutes a reflection on the act of creativity. The novel is in the form of a diary that begins on the author’s birthday and concludes one (lunar) year later. Each day of the week is identified with a theme such as the seasons; the broad movements of history; the biological and psychological cycles of all living beings; and time itself. The author of the diary contemplates and acts upon all the various kinds of knowledge that have come together in his person, either through study, experience, or intuition. Just as in his most well-known novel, Antagonía, Goytisolo uses 360º Diary to explore the human condition and the diverse ways in which the individual comes to know and understand, in whatever limited way, the possibilities of human existence. The totality is a comprehensive, 360º view of contemporary life by an artist employing everything he has learned so as to communicate with the reader willing to follow him in his reflections and, ideally, use them as a starting point for his/her own ideas.

360º Diary: Translated by Pamela J. DeWeese (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)

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Approximations to Luis Goytisolo's «Antagonía» (Wor(l)ds of Change: Latin American and Iberian Literature)

360º Diary: Translated by Pamela J. DeWeese (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)