Juan Goytisolo: “Contaminated by Cervantes did not … – The Times

Ed. Print THE WRITER SPOKE OF POLITICAL CRISIS, CORRUPTION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN SPAIN

The Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo during the event. – Afp Agency

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Blunt, vindictive and very social discourse. So the writer Juan Goytisolo was shown at the ceremony of the Cervantes Prize, which had words against political crisis, corruption, unemployment and nationalism.

A speech that was brief, one of the shortest in the history of the award three leaves-but in many things said, as previously announced. A speech in which he claimed to Cervantes and has been an outraged by social injustice, tragedy of immigrants or evictions.

“For the reasons to be indignant are multiple and the writer can not ignore without betraying himself, “said the Catalan author based in Marrakech, the city to which he has dedicated the award, together with his teacher Márquez Villanueva.

” Back to Cervantes and take the folly of their character as a superior form of sanity that is the lesson of Don Quixote. In doing so we will not evade us from the wicked world around us. Were settling upside feet on it. Say out loud that we can. Contaminated our first writer we do not accept injustice, “said the author in his speech entitled” A plain and bluntly “

And as announced Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, ​​1931). an unorthodox and ironic writer and has always tried to break fees not dressed his coat, as the tradition of the award.

He wore a jacket great pictures and the only tie that says it and hardly used. The last time I put it was “about ten years ago in Mexico,” he told a group of journalists, to whom he acknowledged he was “overwhelmed” and split “, but not touched at any time.

In this ceremony Cervantes, chaired by the kings of Spain, Felipe VI appreciated “critical eye” of the new Cervantes Prize, the “dazzling work” will help the Spaniards to rethink “visions and established ideas” and push them to reflect on the present and the past, “so perhaps better face the future”.

In his speech, the king defended Goytisolo as one of the main representatives of Cervantes in Castilian in recent decades and a summit of literature in Spanish figure, “which has also made” fundamental contributions “to the cultural history of Spain (…)” At the award ceremony, a little more sober and somewhat cooler than other editions, were present the director of the Cervantes Institute, Víctor García de la Concha and the director of the Academy of Language, Dario Villanueva, as well as national and local political office.

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