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The virtues of the solitary bird

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  • "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."
  • "S'appuyant sur l'oeuvre de saint Jean de la Croix et des poètes soufis, l'auteur-narrateur entreprend, à travers époques et espaces discontinus, une quête qui le mène du paradis perdu à l'eden retrouvé."
  • "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."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Allegories"@en
  • "Allegories"

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  • "Reise zum Vogel Simurgh : Roman"
  • "The virtues of the solitary bird"@en
  • "The virtues of the solitary bird"
  • "Les Vertus de l'oiseau solitaire : roman"
  • "The Virtues of the solitary bird"
  • "Les vertus de l'oiseau solitaire : roman"
  • "Den ensamma fågelns dygder"@sv
  • "Virtues of the solitary bird"@en
  • "Den Ensamma fagelns dygder"

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