“Just like what happened to the Quijote, readers touched by the grace of this novel are not resigned to a world suffering from unemployment, corruption and growing social inequalities. Contaminated by our first writer we do not accept the injustice. ” So vibrant and deeply political discourse was Juan Goytisolo (Here, complete) to receive the Cervantes Prize for Literature in the auditorium of the University of Alalá de Henares.
At 84, Goytisolo received the distinction from King Philip VI. The author of a collection of works of the highest quality of contemporary Spanish literature, wrote Sleight of hand , Duel in Paradise and trilogies The Circus , Events and Hangover . Also Hallmarks , one of his most known works, which forms a trilogy with Don Julian and John Lackland .
The writer criticized the “stubbornness of the authorities” to dig “poor bones” of Cervantes and “sell them, perhaps for tourism as holy relics probably made in China”.
Called also as “incurable apprentice Scriptwriter”, to “re-Cervantes and take the madness of his character as a higher form of sanity.” That, he said, is “the lesson of Don Quixote. In doing so we will not evade us from the wicked world around us. Were settling upside foot in it. “
He cited after his admired Fernando Pessoa, who Goytisolo is fully identified. “I’ve been on my conscience defeat as a banner of victory,” said admirable Portuguese poet.
“Being the subject of praise for the literary institution leads me to doubt myself but being persona non grata in the eyes it comforts me in my behavior and work, “he said.
” Since the height of the age, I feel the acceptance of recognition as a sword thrust in the water, like a useless celebration, “he said. And he wondered if it would be better to expose episodes of his life after his painstaking rescue of Algiers.
“How many readers of Don Quixote know the hardships and misery suffered by Cervantes, su denied application to emigrate to America , his failed business, stay in the Seville prison for debt, difficult to accommodate in the neighborhood malfamado Trail Valladolid with his wife, daughter, sister and niece in 1605, the year first part of the novel, the most promiscuous and downs of society? margins. ” The writer lamented that “the truth about the life of Cervantes has not imposed outside of a handful of scholars”.
Then Goytisolo imagined today Quixote “rushing his lance against the minions of the Modern Santa Hermandad, coming to evict the homeless , against corrupt financial engineering “.
Also” at the foot of the gates of Ceuta and Melilla (Spanish enclaves North Africa) relief to some immigrants whose only crime is their instinct of life and the desire for freedom “.
The writer recalled the serious economic and social crisis, political lives Spain and said there are many reasons to be indignant “and the writer can not ignore without betraying himself.” Goytisolo is an outspoken supporter of the Libertarian movement can constantly quotes Quixote in his actions and speeches.
In his speech made several fraternal to the indignant winks and can, as the political party that is on the rise in Spain was one of the final words of his acclaimed speech.
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