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Luis Goytisolo: My Work

lecture

Instituto Cervantes de Manila presents "Constelaciones y Cosmogonías", a lecture by Spanish writer and 2009 Nobel Prize candidate Luis Goytisolo.  Goytisolo, a renowned Spanish writer and academician, will explore his works, including "Antagonía" which is considered by the bookmakers of Great Britain as one of the best novels of the 20th century.   Born in Barcelona in 1935, Luis Goytisolo is the youngest son of a family of writers. In 1958 he won the Biblioteca Breve Prize, awarded by Seix Barral for his first novel “Las Afueras”.  In 1962, his second novel “The same words” was published but forced him not to reissue because of the dissatisfaction stemming from the serious problems of censorship.   On January 1963, he began the actual drafting of "Antagonía", a series of four volumes. The novel took Goytisolo 17 years to write and is considered to be one the best novels of the 20th century. The tetralogy consist of "Recuento" (1974); "Los Verdes de Mayo hasta el Mar" (1976); "La Cólera de Aquiles" (1977), and "Teoría del Conocimiento" (1981). Goytisolo received the Spanish National Prize for Literature for his novel "Estatua con palomas" (1993) and is a member of the Real Academia Española de Lengua.