A Cock-eyed Comedy
2004 Longlist

A Cock-eyed Comedy

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

God works in mysterious ways…and in A Cock-Eyed Comedy, Juan Goytisolo takes on the Spanish Catholic church.
Father Trennes, our hero, is like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of history. His most recent incarnation is as a member of the conservative right wing Catholic organisation, Opus Dei, whose founder, Josemaría Escrivá, has just been canonized.

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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Juan
Goytisolo

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Peter
Bush

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
03/10/2002
Country
Spain
Original Language
Spanish
Publisher
Serpents Tail Ltd.
Translator
Peter Bush

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