station toilets and porno cinemas.
The power of the book lies in Goytisolo's distinctive narrative style.
A 'witness-novel' like his early work of the 50s and 60s, with a clear
and powerful intention to critically analyse contemporary society, it
revels, like 'Mark of Identity' (1966) and 'Don Juan' (1970), in a renunciation
of the objective narrative in favour of a true explosion of the imagination.
This time, not just Franco's Spain, but the whole periphery of the West
is subdued by the intensity of the author's extraordinary personality.
From Barcelona to New York via Paris, this is a West haunted more and
more with characters reminiscent of the celebrated Sisters of Perpetual
Indulgence, and of course, and most importantly, their newly canonised
hero Derek Jarman. Raffaele Teo
'A Cock-Eyed Comedy' is published by Serpent's Tail, price £10.99.
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