Juan Goytisolo,
Makbara (trans Helen Lane):
recently reissued by Dalkey Archive. One of the rare instances where Complete-Review
doesn't get it (no sense of humor on evolving issues), but does get that it's a bit much. It's a lot much. Such much! Over the top at times, including in the meta category, but there's rewards to the risks it takes. In some respects an answer to Edward Said's
Orientalism; but that's minor compared to the send-up of academic and other modern follies -- more anti-ideological than anything, except sex, which [it] is also all about.
+ (or B+, vs C-R's B-)