Luis Goytisolo

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Luis Goytisolo (1980)

Luis Goytisolo Gay (born March 17, 1935 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish narrator and novelist who stands in the tradition of social realism.

Life

childhood and education

Luis Goytisolo comes from an upper-class family who opposed the repression of the Franco dictatorship during his early childhood . His father was the descendant of Basque colonialists who became rich through sugar production in Cuba . The maternal family came from the liberal Catalan educated middle class. His two older brothers José Agustín (1928–1999) and Juan (1931–2017) made a name for themselves as poets and writers, respectively. His mother, Julia Gay, was killed in a bomb attack on Barcelona two years after the start of the Spanish Civil War . The family later found refuge from the civil war in a mountain village. Goytisolo completed his school education at a religious school in Barcelona.

Like his two brothers, Goytisolo devoted himself to writing. At the age of eleven, he began to write his first novels inspired by the adventures of Flash Gordon , after which his uncle Luis took care of him. He selected the reading material for Goytisolo and introduced him to American literature. Between the ages of 13 and 16, Goytisolo devoted himself to poetry. Like his older brothers, he began to study law at the University of Barcelona in 1953 , which he gave up in favor of a career as a writer. Set against the dictatorship of Francisco Franco , Goytisolo became a member of the Communist Party in 1956 . A year later his first stories were published and he left the party.

Debut novel and Antagonía tetralogy

Goytisolo in 2015

Goytisolo was immediately successful with his debut novel Las afueras (1958; German: "The Outside"), set in Barcelona , which is in the tradition of the socially stressed, realistic modern Spanish novel. The work is a collection of seven individual, self-contained narratives and is characterized by a concise, expressively condensed language. The main characters of a story (wealthy landowners, doctors or businessmen meet fences, shoeshines or bricklayers) appear as marginal characters in the other stories, change their occupation but never their social status and remain aimless. With the socially and socially critical novel, Goytisolo denounced the upper class who had become unfit for life and attacked the unprotected proletariat, which earned him the Premio Biblioteca Breve , which was awarded for the first time .

At the same time, the author ran into problems with censorship and was arrested by Spanish police in February 1960. Only through the intervention of French intellectuals such as François Mauriac , Pablo Picasso and Jean-Paul Sartre was Goytisolo released after several months' imprisonment in Carabanchel , whereupon, weakened by tuberculosis , he withdrew to the mountain village, where his family waited for the civil war to end would have.

Goytisolo began studying law , but gave up to devote himself to literature. He wrote for the Spanish daily newspapers El País , ABC and Diario 16 , among others .

The monographs Las afueras and Las mismas palabras ("The Same Words") deal with social realism. His four-part novel Antagonía on the art of writing is considered an important work . Claude Simon counted it among the three great novels of the 20th century.

Luis Goytisolo was married to Maria Antonia Gil Moreno de Mora from 1966 until her death in 1993. The relationship resulted in two sons. He has been married to Elvira Huelbes for the second time since 1998.

Awards

  • 1958: Prize of the Biblioteca Breve for Las Afueras
  • 1976: Prize of the City of Barcelona for Los verdes de mayo hasta el mar
  • 1984: Premio de la Crítica for Estela del fuego que se aleja
  • 1986: Premio Fundación Pablo Iglesias for Investigaciones y conjeturas de Claudio Mendoza
  • 1993: Premio Nacional de Narrativa for Estatua con palomas
  • 1994 or 1995: Member of the Real Academia Española
  • 2013: Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas
  • 2018: Carlos Fuentes Prize

Fonts

Monographs
  • Las afueras , 1958
  • Las mismas palabras , 1963
  • Ojos, círculos, búhos , with the painter Joan Ponç , 1970
  • Antagonía . Novel in four parts
    • Recuento , 1973
    • Los verdes de mayo hasta el mar , 1976
    • La cólera de Aquiles , 1979
    • Teoría del conocimiento , 1981
  • Devoraciones , 1976
  • Estela del fuego que se aleja , 1984
  • Investigaciones y conjeturas de Claudio Mendoza , 1985
  • La paradoja del ave migratoria , 1987
  • Estatua con palomas , 1992
  • Placer licuante , 1997
  • Escalera hacia el cielo , 1999
  • Diario de 360º , 2000
  • Liberación , 2003
  • Oído atento a los pájaros , 2006
  • Cosas que pasan , 2009
  • El lago en las pupilas , 2012
Essays
  • El porvenir de la palabra

Fundación Luis Goytisolo

In El Puerto de Santa María , the Luis Goytisolo Foundation , located in the rococo palace Palacio de Villarreal y Purullena from the 18th century, organizes annual symposia on contemporary Spanish narration.

literature

  • Bert Hofmann: From the "novela social" to the "nueva novela española": studies on the work of Luis Goytisolo; a contribution to the discussion about the Spanish contemporary novel , Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-923721-94-3
  • Dalmau, Miguel: Los Goytisolo . Barcelona: Anagrama, 1999 (Colección Argumentos; 230). - ISBN 84-339-0581-3

Web links

Commons : Luis Goytisolo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Biogram in Kindler's Literature Lexicon Online . Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. - ISBN 978-3-476-04019-0 (accessed October 11, 2009)
  2. ↑ cf. Juan Goytisolo . In: Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Foreign Language Literature (accessed on October 11, 2009 via Munzinger Online )
  3. ↑ cf. Juan Goytisolo Gay . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 04/2005 from January 29, 2005; supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 48/2008 (accessed on October 11, 2009 via Munzinger Online)
  4. ↑ a b c d e cf. Biography at luisgoytisolo.es (Spanish; accessed October 12, 2009)
  5. ↑ cf. Portrait at epdlp.com (Spanish; accessed October 11, 2009)
  6. ↑ cf. Luís Goytisolo i Gay . In: Diccionari biogràfic . Barcelona: Alberti, 1966–1968 (accessed October 11, 2009 via WBIS ).
  7. ↑ cf. Las afueras . In: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon Online . Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009. - ISBN 978-3-476-04019-0 (accessed October 11, 2009)
  8. ↑ cf. Luis Goytisolo: "On paths without a goal"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Der Spiegel 42/1960 of October 12, 1960, p. 84@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / Wissen.spiegel.de  
  9. ↑ Luis Goytisolo awarded the Carlos Fuentes Prize , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on November 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Goytisolo, Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goytisolo Gay, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona