Significant violence

Significant Violence focuses on five works by one of Spain's most important writers, Juan Goytisolo. Swinging between nihilism and utopianism, Goytisolo presents writing as incendiary, even revolutionary. Revolution is here a movement of destruction and liberation, textual, sexual, and political: a movement of the word, the body, and the world. But it is also a highly problematic movement, tending to cut the word from the world, to celebrate only the masculine body, and to reinstate the very oppression that is its object of critique. Drawing from a range of theoretical materials, Significant…