A Cock-eyed Comedy
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 TRANSLATOR Peter
Bush
Peter Bush is a translator. His first literary translation was Juan Goytisolo’s Forbidden Territory (North Point Press, 1989) and, to date, Bush has translated eleven other titles in Goytisolo’s bibliography, including The Marx Family Saga and Exiled from Almost Everywhere. He has translated many Catalan writers including Josep Pla, Mercè Rodoreda, Joan Sales, Najat El Hachmi and Teresa Solana. His most recent effort is A Film (3000 meters) by Víctor Català, the classic 1919 feminist novel set in Barcelona’s criminal underworld. Bush lives and works in Bristol.
Peter Bush is a translator. His first literary translation was Juan Goytisolo’s Forbidden Territory (North Point Press, 1989) and, to date, Bush has translated eleven other titles in Goytisolo’s bibliography, including The Marx Family Saga and Exiled from Almost Everywhere. He has translated many Catalan writers including Josep Pla, Mercè Rodoreda, Joan Sales, Najat El Hachmi and Teresa Solana. His most recent effort is A Film (3000 meters) by Víctor Català, the classic 1919 feminist novel set in Barcelona’s criminal underworld. Bush lives and works in Bristol.