Volume 21, Number 13 · August 8, 1974
O Tempora! O Moors!
By Michael Wood
Count Julian
by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Helen R. Lane
Viking (A Richard Seaver Book), 205 pp., $7.95
Death, Sleep and the Traveler
by John Hawkes
New Directions, 179 pp., $6.95
'We can speak of occupied languages as we speak of occupied countries,' Juan Goytisolo wrote recently in The New York Times, thinking of the Spanish of Franco's Spain. Yet this is a language occupied by native speakers, not by an invading army, and the members of the Resistance all seem to live abroad—they are the Free French, to shift the latitude of the metaphor, not the maquis. Certainly any good book written in Spanish strikes a blow for the language's liberation, but the characters in such books (and the people stuck in Spain) may be forgiven for dreaming of less oblique acts of sabotage against the status quo.
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