The virtues of the solitary bird
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Author
Contributions
- Lane, Helen R. - Contributor
Publication
1991 - Serpent's Tail, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
40,500 words, Guess
Page Count
162 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1893873M
- ISBN-101852421754
- OCLC Control Number24638309
- OCLC Control Numberisbn_0852421754
- Library of Congress Control Number90064192
and 2 more
- Goodreads584433
- LibraryThing2030178
Classifications
- DDC863/.64
- LCCPQ6613.O79 V513 1991
Description
For Goytisolo, great writers are 'solitary birds' whose voice is an enchanting cry that pierces time. On his hospital bed, the persecuted narrator identifies with St John of the Cross, himself forced by the Inquisition to swallow his Treatise on the Qualities of the Solitary Bird. Through a scintillating succession of visions, soliloquies and ecstatic chants he converses with the banished saint. The agencies of repression have changed but, as in the past, a hideous. revenge will be wrought on the heretic whose work is seen to be as deadly a contamination as AIDS. Four hundred years ago, St John creatively ransacked in his writing the cultures of Christianity, biblical Judaism and Muslim mysticism. Juan Goytisolo now pays rich homage, with atonal dissonance and constant invention.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Masks
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