by Juan Goytisolo · Serpent's Tail · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781852421588
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«Count Julian» is the novel by Juan Goytisolo, published by Serpent's Tail in paperback (224 pages, in English).
A Spanish exile fantasizes about a new invasion of his homeland, evoking the legend of Count Julian, who opened the peninsula to the Muslims. The destruction reaches the myths of Hispanic identity: the Christian knight, the macho male, the virginal woman and the hero forged against Islam. Hatred of Spain coexists with the exile's debt to his land.
Second installment of the Álvaro Mendiola Trilogy. English translation by Helen R. Lane of the original «Reivindicación del Conde don Julián» (1970). Published in Serpent's Tail's Masks collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in the critical view of history and the myths of Spanish identity from exile.
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.
