by Juan Goytisolo · Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439719083
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«Coto vedado» is the autobiography of Juan Goytisolo, published by Mondadori in hardcover (313 pages, in Spanish).
Juan Goytisolo reconstructs in this autobiographical text his childhood, his youth and his voluntary exile in Paris, and makes personal memory the starting point of an ethical reflection on his own life. The work also offers a portrait of a Spain and an era marked by oppression, and culminates in the discovery of the South as a new starting point.
The work originally appeared in 1985; the edition described is from 1995 and belongs to the Literatura Mondadori collection (number 37).
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish literature and of memoirs with testimonial value, and for those who want to learn about the figure of Juan Goytisolo.
Juan Goytisolo Gay was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
