The Exile Trilogy (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Juan Goytisolo
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Magical Realism
- Time of Work: 1963-1975
- Setting: Spain, France, and Morocco
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Language or languages, 1960’s, 1970’s, Africa or Africans, France or French people, Sex or sexuality, Exile or expatriates, 1940’s, 1930’s, Fantasy, Priests, Spain or Spanish people, Hedonism
- Locales: France, Spain, Morocco
Characters Discussed
Marks of Identity, 1966
Álvaro Mendiola (AHL- vah-roh mehn-dee-OH-lah), a heavy-drinking, thirty-two- year-old photographer and maker of documentary films, loosely based on the author. After a voluntary exile of ten years in France, he returns to Spain to reconstruct his past, which is bound up inextricably with contemporary Spanish history. His conflict in this journey is his conflict with Spain—he can feel his full identity only in Spain, where he was born and reared, but he cannot live there, tolerating a Fascist regime and a...
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