A Cock-eyed Comedy

A Cock-eyed Comedy

by JuanGoytisolo (Author), PeterBush (Translator)

Synopsis

God works in mysterious ways... and in A Cock-Eyed Comedy Goytisolo takes on the Spanish Catholic church in a book which is both a comedy and a sharp attack on authority and conformity. Father de Trennes is a member of the staunchly conservative right wing Catholic organisation Opus Dei. Although in his case his search is for sex rather than God. A cast of historical characters, including philosopher Roland Barthes, Jean Genet and Argentine writer Manuel Puig, meet and mingle with a host of imaginary ones in an orgiastic romp until AIDS takes its toll on them all. Joe Orton meets Father Ted in this knockabout comedy which is also a vicious satire on the darker side of the history of the church: a church with many skeletons in its closet.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 03 Oct 2002

ISBN 10: 1852428198
ISBN 13: 9781852428198

Media Reviews
?An explosive and entertaining mixture of parody and autobiography? Rafael Conte, El Pais
Author Bio
Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature. He lives in Morocco.