Juan Goytisolo

In 2034, the stars went out. An unknown agency surrounded the solar system with an impenetrable barrier, concealing the universe from humanity’s gaze. In 2067, Nick Stavrianos is hired to investigate the disappearance of a mentally disabled woman, Laura Andrews, from the institution where she was being cared for. Aided by a skull full of neural modifications, he follows her trail to the Republic of New Hong Kong, where an organisation known as the Ensemble has uncovered Laura’s extraordinary secret: an ability that could transform the world.

Viculada a "señas de identidad" tanto por lo que tiene de continuación de su designio literario y de exploración personal como por lo que de ruptura con ella supone.

Forbidden Territory is the extraordinary account of the intellectual awakening of Juan Goytisolo, Spain's preeminent living novelist. Born into the failing bourgeoisie of Barcelona in 1931, Goytisolo was raised within a milieu that strove blindly to maintain the pretenses of wealth and moral superiority. All objectivity was lost on this family that cheered the arrival of Franco even though Juan's mother had been killed by a Nationalist bomb in 1936. His were the people who supported the efforts of the Nazis in Germany and who were quick to denounce anyone they deemed "red," including their much beloved young servant, Maria. The intellectual and sensual suppression that marked the early years for Goytisolo was twofold. With the installation of the Franco regime came widespread intolerance in Spain; religious, political, and artistic censorship became the norm. Within this barren cultural environment, Goytisolo was isolated in a household that compounded his "intellectual orphanhood." After his mother's death, his father became a passive and rigid family leader. The atmosphere in their home was poisoned by hypocrisy; Juan's grandfather continued to live with them, despite the fact that he had molested the young boy. The bitterness that surrounded this arrangement only further confused Juan's sexual development, causing him much guilt over his homosexual inclinations. Complete intellectual intolerance forced Juan to self-education, which was guided by his natural abhorrence for things Nationalist -- antiquated bourgeois morality, including sexual and religious intolerance, and the staunch promotion of Spanish as the formal national language. Living as a pariah in his native country, Goytisolo found inspiration and perspective in his insatiable appetite for foreign literature, eventually embracing multi-lingualisim as his escape from the suppressive atmosphere of post-revolutionary Spain. Forbidden Territory alternates between a stately, eloquent first-person narrative and shorter, lyrical passages in which the author addresses himself in the second person, allowing for an objectivity that is rarely achieved in autobiography. Above all, Forbidden Territory chronicles the shaping -- against political, sexual, and social repression -- of a writer, and in turn, how the pursuit of a voice made Goytisolo a perpetual outsider, at ease in many languages and cultures, yet at home in none. - Jacket flap.

Novela que propone una contrahistoria que ocupa los huecos del relato masculino de la conquista y, sin contradecir sus hechos fundamentales, los explica desde una extrema cercanía. Historia íntima donde la conquista es a la vez amorosa y política, sexual y guerrera; esta novela se une a los libros fundamentales sobre México, a las páginas donde la imaginación forja una verdad profunda, interior, que no deja de acompañarnos nunca: la verdad de la ficción.--Dede la descripción de la editorial.

Coto vedado explora y a la vez funda un nuevo territorio moral en la literatura española de hoy. En este texto autobiográfico, Juan Goytisolo convierte la memoria personal en eje de una rigurosa indagación ética, inseparable de la tensión expresiva del lenguaje literario. Desde los días opacos de la infancia violentada hasta la insurrección juvenil en una sociedad mohosa y cloroformizada para desembocar en el exilio voluntario en París y en el descubrimiento del Sur como verdadera patria, Coto vedado -radiografía de un país y una época al tiempo que lúcida introspección- no es sólo uno de los libros mayores de Juan Goytisolo, sino un título singular y único en su género entre nosotros.