Author(s): Luis Goytisolo
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 1120
Publisher: ANAGRAMA
Language: English,
Date Published: 2015-06-30
Dimensions: 150 x 242 x 60mm
Publication City/Country: Barcelona, Spain
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With its colossal breadth, Antagonia constitutes without a doubt one of the highest peaks of Spanish narrative. Instantly hailed as a masterpiece, Antagonia begins by telling the life story of Raul Ferrer Gaminde up until the moment when he decides to become a writer. It then submerges itself in his life through his notes and drafts, his dreams and fantasies. As a counterpoint to this, we see Raul and his world from a distance, and end up in A Theory of Knowledge, the novel written by Raul himself. Novel within a novel, Antagonia constitutes one of the most profound investigations into literary creation ever undertaken. “The best novel written in Spain, I was almost going to say in Spanish, in a long time” (Guillermo Cabrera Infante).