by Juan Goytisolo · Mondadori España · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439718017
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«La cuarentena» is the novel by Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo, published by Mondadori España in hardcover (110 pages, in Spanish).
After the unexpected death of a friend, the narrator accompanies her through imagination and writing during the quarantine: according to Muslim tradition, the soul remains in an intermediate space after being questioned by the two angels of death, while visions emerge that evoke Dante and Ibn Arabi and echoes of the war of those days.
Originally published in 1991, it is part of the Narrativa Mondadori collection (ISBN 9788439718017).
For readers of Spanish narrative and fictions that explore the transition towards death.
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.
