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Juan Goytisolo, born on January 6, 1931, is a renowned Spanish poet. His poetry is known for its profound social criticism and reflective insights into Spanish history and culture.

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War History Repetition Tanks Soldiers Ambush Tolstoy Tsar Obtuse Cruelty

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“Con la negra boca de los fusiles delante de ti tratas en vano de apresar el tiempo.”

Death Time Memory War Crimes

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“The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.”

Culture Influence Capacity Vitality Decadence

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“But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.”

Results Economic Miracle Dedication Spain 1960s Invasion Tourists Tourism Impassioned

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“In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.”

Feelings Political Belief Religious Perfect Function Harmony Unison Perfect Harmony

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“In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.”

World Needs Doe Two War Ends Revolution Capitalism Europe Abuse Injustice Privilege Block War Of The Worlds Collectives Divided Second World War Castes

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“And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.”

Important Situation Unique Discovery Isolation Each Day

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“A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.”

Use Artist Style Expression Products Findings Contemporary Primitive Refined Baroque

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“And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.”

Way Made Today White Conditions Elements Series Obvious Spain Similarity

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“Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.”

Country Process Identity Expression Intellectual Respect Mark Contemporary Alienation

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“The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.”

Inspiration Language Innocent Innocence Abandon

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“My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.”

Reason Political Social Moral Redemption Motivated Exile Ideological

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“As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.”

My Own Clarity Companion

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“I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.”

Values Land Judgment Stranger Critical Native Closest Native Land

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“In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.”

Reading Levels Diverse

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“In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.”

Opinion Century Drama Criticism Significant Tyranny Narrative Genre Etc Twentieth Century Time Poetry

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“The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.”

Mean Purpose Language Novel Achieve Objects Fundamentals Unity Schemes Representation Treason Fusion

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“When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.”

Writing Art Character Action Form Secret Situation Structure Architecture Plastic Affinity

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About the Author

Born: January 6, 1931
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 18

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