“Time was a blind rider nobody could unsaddle. As he galloped, he ravaged all that seemed enduring, transformed landscapes, reduced dreams to ashes.”
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Juan Goytisolo Gay (Barcelona, 5 de enero de 1931-Marrakech, 4 de junio de 2017) fue un escritor e intelectual español. Considerado como el narrador más importante de la Generación del medio siglo, su obra abarca novelas, libros de cuentos y de viajes, ensayos y poesía. En 2014 le fue concedido el Premio Cervantes, máximo galardón de las letras en lengua castellana. Era hermano de los también escritores José Agustín Goytisolo (1928-1999) y Luis Goytisolo (1935). ---------- Juan Goytisolo Gay (Barcelona, 5 January 1931–Marrakesh, 4 June 2017) was a Spanish writer and intellectual. Considered the most important narrator of the Mid-Century Generation, his work includes novels, short story and travel books, essays and poetry. In 2014, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest award in Spanish-language literature. He was the brother of fellow writers José Agustín Goytisolo (1928–1999) and Luis Goytisolo (1935).
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“Time was a blind rider nobody could unsaddle. As he galloped, he ravaged all that seemed enduring, transformed landscapes, reduced dreams to ashes.”
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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 o...”
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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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“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 on the part of its intellect...”
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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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“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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“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 them...”
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“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 in perfect harmony.”
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