Author: Juan Goytisolo

Cites

• Francisco de Quevedo (1)
  • IN: Marks of Identity (1966) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Yesterday had gone; Tomorrow has not come.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Spain
• Mariano Jose de Larra (1)
  • IN: Marks of Identity (1966) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Let's be sure about it, I said to myself; where is the cemetery? Outside or inside? ... The cemetery is inside Madrid. Madrid is the cemetery.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Spain
• Luis Cernuda (1)
  • IN: Marks of Identity (1966) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Better yet destruction, fire.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Spain
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Garden of Secrets (1997) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The most baeutiful garden is a cupboard filled with books.
    FROM: Tale of A Thousand and One Nights, (1775), Book, Middle East
  • IN: Makbara (1979) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ***[Moroccan alphabet - check photo]
    FROM: Moroccan Proverb, (None), NULL, Morocco
• Jean Genet (1)
  • IN: Count Julian (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I dreamed of Tangler, whose proximity fascinated me, and the prestige of this city that is more or less a favorite haunt of traitors.
    FROM: The Thief's Journal, (1949), Novel, France
• Alfonso X El Sabio (1)
  • IN: Count Julian (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Accursed be the fury of the traitor Julian, of which we were long the victims; accursed be his wrath, for it was cruel and evil; his rage was boundless and his hatred intractable, his madness precocious; he was incapable of loyalty, respected no law of the land, and scorned God; a pitiless man, the murderer of his suzerain, the enemy of his own house, the destroyer of his own land, perfidious and treacherous and guilty of many grave misdeeds against his own people; there is a bitter ring to his name in the mouths of those who utter it; the very memory of him brings pain and sorrow to the heart of anyone who speaks of him, and his name will be forever accursed by all who mention it.
    FROM: Crónica General, (1289), NULL, Spain
• D. A. F. De Sade (1)
  • IN: Count Julian (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I should like to discover a crime the effect of which would be actively felt forever, long after my own active efforts had ceased, so that every single instant of my life, even when sleeping, would become the cause of some sort of disorder, which would then spread so widely as to bring on such general corruption or such absolute disruption that the effect of it would be prolonged far beyond my own lifetime.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• L. G. De V. (1)
  • IN: Count Julian (1970) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In their struggle against the Byzantines and the Berbers, the Arab chieftains had greatly extended their African dominions, and as early as the year 682 Uqba had reached the shores of the Atlantic, but he was unable to occupy Tangier, for he was forced to turn back toward the Atlas Mountains by a mysterious person whom Moslem historians almost always refer to as Ulyan, though his real name was problably Julian, or perhaps Urban or Ulban or Bulian. Soon thereafter he became a legendary figure, known as "Count Julian." We are not certain whether he was a Berber, a Visigoth, or a Byzantine; as a "count" he may have been the ruler of the fortress of Septem, once part of the Visigoth kingdom; or he may have been an exarch or a governor ruling in the name of the Byzantine Emperor: or, as he appears more likely, he may have been a Berber who was the lord and master of the Catholic tribe of Gomera...
    FROM: Historia de Espana, (1952), Book, Spain
• Octavio Paz (1)
  • IN: Juan the Landless (1975) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The face distanced itself from the ass.
    FROM: Conjunctions and Disjunctions, (1969), Book, Mexico
• T. E. Lawrence (1)
  • IN: Juan the Landless (1975) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I'm completely dead to decency.
    FROM: Letters, (1922), NULL, UK
• Jacques Berque (1)
  • IN: Juan the Landless (1975) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Word against fact, guerrilla against traditional warfare, incantatory affirmation against objectivity and, generally speaking, sign against thing.
    FROM: Les Arabes, (1960), NULL, France
• St John of the Cross (1)
  • IN: The Virtues of The Solitary Bird (1988) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: From the inner wine cellar of my Beloved I drank
    FROM: Spiritual Canticle, (1622), Religious Text, Spain
• Ibn Al Farid (1)
  • IN: The Virtues of The Solitary Bird (1988) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: a wine that intoxicated us before the creation of the vineyard
    FROM: Al Jamriya, (None), NULL, Egypt
• Karl Marx (1)
  • IN: Makbara (1979) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: In the icy waters of egoistic calculation
    FROM: Communist Manifesto, (1848), NULL, Germany
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Makbara (1979) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: all this the world well knowes yet none knowes well, to shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
    FROM: Sonnet 129, (1609), Poem, UK