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A Cook-Eyed Comedy
Father Trennes, the Pythagorean protagonist of Juan Goytisolo’s latest acerbic text, is like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain’s history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei—the conservative right wing Catholic organization—religious leader in present-day Spain, whose conformity Goytisolo delightfully savages.
A cast of real people and invented characters, including the writers Roland Barthes, Jean Genet, Jaime Gil de Biedma, and Severo Sarduy, are mixed up in a literary and historical melting pot. A Cock-Eyed Comedy is a transgressive dark comedy with a significant message about religion and sexuality.
“Juan Goytisolo is one of the most rigorous and original contemporary writers. His books are a strange mixture of pitiless autobiography, the debunking of mythologies and conformist fetishes, passionate exploration of the periphery of the West and audacious linguistic experiment”. —Mario Vargas Llosa
“Goytisolo’s extraordinary lyrical and imaginative gifts are simultaneously forceful and beguiling, and the only response is to give in to the tumultuous, hallucinatory voices” —Observer
A cast of real people and invented characters, including the writers Roland Barthes, Jean Genet, Jaime Gil de Biedma, and Severo Sarduy, are mixed up in a literary and historical melting pot. A Cock-Eyed Comedy is a transgressive dark comedy with a significant message about religion and sexuality.
“Juan Goytisolo is one of the most rigorous and original contemporary writers. His books are a strange mixture of pitiless autobiography, the debunking of mythologies and conformist fetishes, passionate exploration of the periphery of the West and audacious linguistic experiment”. —Mario Vargas Llosa
“Goytisolo’s extraordinary lyrical and imaginative gifts are simultaneously forceful and beguiling, and the only response is to give in to the tumultuous, hallucinatory voices” —Observer
