by Juan Goytisolo · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475304892
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«Fiestas» is the novel by Juan Goytisolo published by Orbis in 1984 in hardback (235 pages, in Spanish).
Pipo, an orphan living with his grandmother and an old maid in a residential neighbourhood next to the suburban area of Barcelona, finds in Gorila, a fisherman with a vivid imagination, an escape from monotony. The novel portrays the poverty and oppression of Francoist Spain during the preparation of great religious festivities.
The 1984 edition belongs to the collection Grandes Autores Españoles del Siglo XX (no. 9); the novel is part of the series El Mañana Efímero and was originally published in 1958.
Juan Goytisolo Gay was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
