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Juan Goytisolo
Juan Goytisolo
Spanish Poet
Born: 1931
Because Country Me Own Political Situation
Related authors: Emily Dickinson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Khalil Gibran Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Sophocles Walt Whitman
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. Juan Goytisolo
Me Values Those Critical Only Physically Became Judgments Closest Native Native Land Land Stranger Lived Away
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile. Juan Goytisolo
Political Moral Sexual Physical Only Also Ideological Motivated Exile Social Reasons
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. Juan Goytisolo
Language Innocent Innocence Abandon Inspiration Writer Never Simply Feign Himself Because Cannot
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. Juan Goytisolo
Primitive Most Contemporary Styles Refined Up Artist Literary Use Products Baroque Expressions
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. Juan Goytisolo
Respect Country Own Other Alienation Marks Contemporary Identity His Intellectual Process Expression Among Things
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. Juan Goytisolo
Writing Country Sense Earth Above Through Factors Merely Piece Cultural Historical Begin Order Process Which Social Acquire
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. Juan Goytisolo
Architecture Invent Situation Secret Characters Rather Structures Write Combined According Textual Arts Which Forms Themselves Plastic Actions Now Among

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