A Cock-Eyed Comedy

by Juan Goytisolo

In A Cock-Eyed Comedy, Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain's history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei religious leader in present-day Spain, whose conformity Goytisolo delightfully savages. A cast of real people and invented characters, including Roland Barthes, Jean Genet, and Manuel Puig, are mixed up in a literary and historical melting pot. A...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872864502
• ISBN13: 9780872864504
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.3"