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Understanding Juan Goytisolo's Place in Contemporary Spanish Narrative Dissidences Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism Volume 3 Issue 6 Article 4 November 2012 “Something of a One-Man Generation”: Understanding Juan Goytisolo's Place in Contemporary Spanish Narrative Stuart Davis Girton College, Cambridge University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/dissidences Recommended Citation Davis, Stuart (2012) "“Something of a One-Man Generation”: Understanding Juan Goytisolo's Place in Contemporary Spanish Narrative," Dissidences: Vol. 3 : Iss. 6 , Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/dissidences/vol3/iss6/4 This Article / Artículo is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Bowdoin Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissidences by an authorized editor of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “Something of a One-Man Generation”: Understanding Juan Goytisolo's Place in Contemporary Spanish Narrative Keywords / Palabras clave Juan Goytisolo, Spain, España, Narrativa This article / artículo is available in Dissidences: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/dissidences/vol3/iss6/4 DISSIDEnCES Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism “Something of a One-Man Generation”: Understanding Juan Goytisolo’s Place in Contemporary Spanish Narrative Stuart Davis, Girton College, Cambridge University Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona 1931) is responsible for a large and varied body of work, from his first published novel in 1954 until the present day. In addition to nineteen novels and two volumes of autobiography, he has written several volumes of essays on literature and culture, newspaper opinion pieces, travelogues, short stories, and even poetry which was included in the 1995 novel El sitio de los sitios. Rather than focusing on close readings of Goytisolo’s work, this article traces key elements of the trajectory and reception of Goytisolo’s work, Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6 & 7 (Spring 2010) 1 from the ‘social realism’ of the 1950s, via the ‘avant-garde’ Mendiola trilogy of Señas de identidad (1966), Reivindicación del Conde don Julián (1970), and Juan sin tierra (1975) with its complex attacks on Francoist language, culture and society, to subsequent novels which continue to be heavily influenced by attempts to question narrative, implicate the reader in the text and simultaneously attend to social questions, whether homosexuality, the Arabic world or civil war. Goytisolo is a self-marginalised figure in the literary world, openly scornful of literary prizes and the establishment, yet he is perhaps one of the most studied and critically acclaimed of contemporary writers [1]. Indeed, as early as 1982 Milagros Sánchez-Arnosi described Goytisolo as: Juan Goytisolo, un nombre durante mucho tiempo maldito, hoy, paradójicamente, incorporado en los planes de estudio de COU, lectura obligada de universitarios, psicoanalista nacional, fugitivo en otros tiempos, destructor de instituciones y símbolos caducos, denunciador de clisés y prejuicios anti- islámicos, filoarabista total, indagador del lenguaje y las relaciones entre la cultura árabe y española (Sánchez-Arnosi 4). Sánchez-Arnosi’s reading of Goytisolo’s position points to how this ‘difficult’ writer has so quickly become part of the institutional fabric, after the end of Francoist censorship, essential reading for curricula. It is also interesting to note how here she identifies Goytisolo’s concern with Arabic folklore and Spanish identity as a defining feature, while, as we will see, differing critical perspectives offer a number of approaches to the work. The trajectory of Goytisolo’s novelistic development, the focus of this study, can be traced by critics in principal as: thematic, stylistic and relative to social changes. Continually considered in relation to other writers and wider socio-literary movements, such readings are always Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6 & 7 (Spring 2010) 2 dependent on the viewpoint of the critic who is evaluating Goytisolo’s career and the time and place from which he or she works and the institution from which he or she speaks. As will be made clear in this study, critics’ viewpoints, including my own, are always marked by the habitus of the critic, over which they have no control and little consciousness, as well as by the current wider episteme. The Goytisolo industry We will begin by identifying the critical industry around the author’s fictional work. A metacritical overview reveals many of the underlying critical values that have influenced the reception of Goytisolo’s work, and suggests how readings of the later novels are influenced by the earlier teXts. By using the comprehensive MLA bibliographical database, we can gain a snapshot of the critical work surrounding Goytisolo [2]. A search for each of the novels, and the two short story collections Para vivir aquí and Fin de fiesta, reveals the following counts: Fictional work Year of Count in publications publication 1954-2008 Juegos de manos 19547 Duelo en El Paraíso 1955 6 El circo 19572 Fiestas 19586 La Resaca 19582 Para vivir aquí 19600 La isla 19612 Fin de fiesta 19624 Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6 & 7 (Spring 2010) 3 Señas de identidad 196651 Reivindicación del Conde don Julián 1970 92 Juan sin tierra 197567 Makbara 198035 Paisajes después de la batalla 198222 Las virtudes del pájaro solitario 198823 La cuarentena 199112 La saga de los MarX 19936 El sitio de los sitios 199510 Las semanas del jardín 19978 Carajicomedia 20006 Telón de boca 20033 El eXiliado de aquí y allá 20080 The following table provides information on entries relating to Goytisolo on a year-by-year basis in the same database: Year Publications Year Publications 1957 2 1983 15 1958 0 1984 20 1959 1 1985 10 1960 0 1986 8 1961 2 1987 7 1962 2 1988 34 1963 2 1989 14 1964 3 1990 20 1965 3 1991 14 1966 1 1992 10 1967 2 1993 13 Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6 & 7 (Spring 2010) 4 1968 0 1994 12 1969 2 1995 11 1970 4 1996 29 1971 6 1997 20 1972 4 1998 16 1973 9 1999 19 1974 8 2000 9 1975 15 2001 18 1976 15 2002 14 1977 22 2003 16 1978 10 2004 9 1979 16 2005 14 1980 15 2006 14 1981 21 2007 14 1982 10 2008 3 It is clear from the data that there is a cluster of critical work around the Mendiola trilogy with the 1980s work also occupying a prominent space [3]. There is also a large increase in publications in 1975 with several particularly high counts of references in 1977, 1984, 1988 and 1996 (a phenomenon in part due to the publication of volumes of essays, since each critic’s contribution to the volume counts as a separate entry in the bibliographic database). How might we account for some of this data? How has this industry been shaped and by whom? The early work: 1966 and all that For Goytisolo, the main critical focus for a shift in his narrative voice occurs with the appearance of the first of the Mendiola trilogy, Señas de identidad, after a relatively quiet Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6 & 7 (Spring 2010) 5 period without publications. Previously, Goytisolo had been included as a member of the Generación del medio siglo or Generación de 54, but by 1966 he moved towards a more experimental style of writing. The Generación del medio siglo was characterised by the writers' backgrounds and their literary style. While the writers of the 1940s, epitomised by Cela and Laforet, had been teenage or adult during the Civil War, Goytisolo, along with writers such as Ana María Matute, Juan Marsé and Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, had been only a child during the conflict and had been schooled and educated during the hardship of the immediate post-Civil War period, a member of a generation that had not been old enough to comprehend fully the war as it happened. Goytisolo’s early novels such as Juegos de manos, El circo, Fiestas and La resaca are characterised by a need to attend to social deprivation and the politics of 1950s Spain. This early Goytisolo was described in 1970 by Kessel Schwartz as representative of “much that is typical of the new writers in his interpretation of a Spain haunted by its Civil War memories and subjected to a political and religious censorship” (Juan Goytisolo 22). Stylistically, the writings of this generation were part of the neorealismo movement, which Margaret Jones retrospectively defines as working in three directions: objetivismo (where the narrator takes a cinema-like, non-intrusive approach, allowing direct description of actions and conversation to shape the characters and plot), ‘the social novel’ (taking the working class as its subject matter in order to reveal the injustices of politics and class divisions), and ‘subjective neorealism’ (frequently characterising the child or young adult as rebel, with the adult as disillusioned, foregrounding psychological development) (Jones 28-96). Although Jones does not use any of Goytisolo’s novels as paradigms for her definitions, his publications of the time are closely related to Jones’s theories; the 1958 novel Fiestas, in particular, depicts the working class of Barcelona in a narrative style that, while not as objective stylistically as Jones’s models (Cela’s La colmena (1951) and Sánchez Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 6 & 7 (Spring 2010) 6 Ferlosio’s El Jarama (1955)) is nonetheless characterised by a lack of clear narratorial intrusion as it focuses on depravation, murder and social outcasts. The critical consensus is that this is a generation that is critical of the Establishment, using their literary output to eXpress, according to José Domingo: sus preocupaciones sociales, sus deseos de superar ciertos aspectos de la vida nacional, y lograr la necesaria libertad de expresión, a la vez que manifiestan con progresiva intensidad “una actitud de inconformismo dentro del país” y muestran las insuficiencias de una sociedad anquilosada, inadecuada para los tiempos actuales (La novela 119).
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