by Juan Goytisolo · Ediciones Península · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499424569
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In 'Ottoman Istanbul', Juan Goytisolo immerses us in the society of Ottoman Istanbul, from the sultans to the janissaries. With his passion and literary mastery, Goytisolo reveals the beliefs, traditions, and customs of this society, from its deep attachment to nature to its rites of passage, passing through the Grand Bazaar and the caravanserais. The author exalts and vindicates a society much freer than we have been led to believe, whose cultural and artistic versatility is essential to understanding Western literature and the arts.
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.
