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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872864061 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100717520 02 0872864065 03 9780872864061 15 9780872864061 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>State of Siege</TitleText> 1 A01 Goytisolo, Juan Juan Goytisolo Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931. Since 1956 he has lived in voluntary exile outside Spain and now lives in Marrakesh. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Carribean Prize for Literature. His most recent books are State of Siege, The Garden of Secrets, Landscapes of War, and The Marx Family Saga. 2 B06 Lane, Helen Helen Lane 01 eng 144 00 144 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy European Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Literature in Translation 01 A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where blind and barbarous forces lay siege to individual lives and diverse cultures."State of Siege is a novel of pure fiction, but infinitely more powerful than all the big speeches about Bosnia."-Le Nouvel Observateur"A passionate dialogue with the reader, a reflection on privacy and commitment [engagement], with the steady vigilant presence of a great literary voice."-Le Monde"The reader is thrown into the unreality of a besieged city, as if a firm hand had rudely pushed him out of the tank that brought him from the airport."-L'Express"For the Spaniard Juan Goytisolo, writing is a dangerous adventure."-Lire"Dreams, reminiscences of the war in Spain, thoughts on the novel, borrowings from mystery and detective fiction, references to ancient cultures and Arabic culture, numerous allusions to the narrative structure of Don Quixote-these make up the form of this novel that, as the author says in an ironic and provocative way, isn't written 'according to the rules.'"-Fayard PresseJuan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931 and lives in Marrakech. In 1993, he was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize for his literary achievement and contribution to world culture. His translated works include a two-volume autobiography, Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife, the novels Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, Quarantine, Virtues of a Solitary Bird, The Marx Family Saga, and The Garden of Secrets, and the essays Saracen Chronicles and Landscapes of War. 02 A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where... 08 "Juan Goytisolo's labyrinthine novel, originally published in Spanish in 1995 and now ably translated by Helen Lane, is at once an account of the siege of Sarajevo, a parade of postmodern storytelling techniques and an indictment of Western indifference.... Goytisolo effectively lets Sarajevo's horrors speak for themselves, with his portraits of snipers who take indiscriminate aim at children and of a man who shows tenderness for a starving kitten only to have it die from overeating." The New York Times Book Review 08 "Seven years after its original publication, the territory expands apace, well beyond the pages of his novels or any one geographical setting. State of Siege now reads like painful literary prophecy." Village Voice 08 "The often-confounding, but ultimately rewarding, narrative lines running circles through State of Siege find Spanish novelist Goytisolo combining a Borgesian spirit of play with the lyrically righteous anger at oppression perfected by Eduardo Galeano." Booklist 08 "Goytisolo's latest novel comes out of his visits to Sarajevo in the early '90s, but it's hardly journalistic. An attempt "to oppose the truth of fiction to the lies of propaganda," the slippery, labyrinthine plot—about the mysterious disappearance of a foreigner's body in a Sarajevo-like city under siege—holds dream narratives, fragments of homoerotic, mystical poetry, and fantasies of a Parisian neighborhood's collapse. Goytisolo strives for a unity of politics and form, trapping his readers and characters alike in an epistemological purgatory in which "Reality has been transmuted into fiction: the horror tale of our daily existence!"– Village Voice Literary Supplement 08 "State of Siege is a novel of pure fiction, but infinitely more powerful than all the big speeches about Bosnia." Le Nouvelle Observer 08 ". . . a passionate dialogue with the reader, a reflection on privacy and commitment (engagement), with the steady vigilant presence of a great literary voice." Le Monde 08 "The reader is thrown into the unreality of a besieged city, as if a firm hand had rudely pushed him out of the tank that brought him from the airport." LExpress 08 "For the Spaniard Juan Goytisolo, writing is a dangerous adventure." Lire 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100717520/images/87286100717520L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100717520/images/87286100717520S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100717520 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20020901 01 7.25 in 02 5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20020901 01 02 13.95 USD