{"id":15910,"date":"2018-03-09T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=15910"},"modified":"2018-03-09T09:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T13:01:29","slug":"juan-goytisolo-tangier-havana-and-the-treasonous-intellectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/juan-goytisolo-tangier-havana-and-the-treasonous-intellectual\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Goytisolo \u2013 Tangier, Havana and the Treasonous\u00a0Intellectual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! Two days in a row I\u2019m reposting Arab Lit (in English)<\/em>. Today Marcia Lynx Qualey \u00a0brings up (& sends us to a dossier on) one of my very favorite Spanish-born Maghrebi-by-choice writers: Juan Goytisolo (5 January 1931 \u2013 4 June 2017), someone I had hoped to eventually meet \u2014 something that was unhappily not to be. In my library Goytisolo\u2019s books do not stand on the Spanish Lit shelves, but on the North African shelves. I certainly agree with the following thought of Goytisolo\u2019s, quoted by Hisham Aidi in his essay: \u201cI have always <\/span>believed that the role of the intellectual is the critique of \u2018your <\/span>own,\u2019 and the respect of the \u2018other,\u2019 and that is <\/span>the opposite of nationalism, which is about promoting \u2018us\u2019 and <\/span><\/span>rejecting the \u2018other\u2019\u2014and if that is treason, then so be it<\/span><\/span>, que <\/span>as\u00ed sea<\/span>.\u201d Aidi\u2019s criticism of Goytisolo\u2019s stance re the Moroccan regime may sound a bit harsh, but I (grudgingly) have to agree with the main features of his analysis. But next time in Larache, I\u2019ll most certainly visit the cemetery where Goysitoli lies buried \u2014 I know the way, having taken it to visit Jean Genet\u2019s grave, next to which si Juan was buried last year.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Friday Finds:\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n

by mlynxqualey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Episode 9 of Bulaq<\/a> \u2014 a podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey (The Arabist) and M. Lynx Qualey (ArabLit), and produced by Issandr Amrani (The Arabist) \u2014 is about \u201cGood Bad Reviews\u201d:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Although the meat of the episode is around reviewing, it kicks off with a discussion of an article Hisham Aidi published on MERIP.<\/a>\u00a0The piece, on Juan Goytisolo, is subtitled \u201cTangier, Havana and the Treasonous Intellectual<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It opens:<\/p>\n

For the past 25 years, every evening around sunset, an elderly man could be seen gingerly crossing the Boulevard Pasteur, Tangier\u2019s busy main thoroughfare. Shuffling toward the Grand Poste, he would walk slowly down the pavement to Caf\u00e9 Maravillosa. Regulars would stand up to shake his hand. \u201cMarhba<\/em>, Si Juan.\u201d Waiters would greet him, \u201cJa\u2019izat Nobel dyalna<\/em>, our own Nobel laureate,\u201d and set him up at a table with a pot of green tea. For the next two hours, a steady rotation of old acquaintances, students and tourists would stop by to chat or take a photo.<\/p>\n

This re-assessment of Goytisolo\u2019s work is unflinching yet generous, and Aidi\u2019s critical overview of the life and work of this Spanish writer \u2014 who spent much of his life in Morocco \u2014 is interlaced with elements of Aidi\u2019s own story.<\/p>\n

Keep reading<\/strong>:\u00a0\u201cJuan Goytisolo: Tangier, Havana and the Treasonous Intellectual<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen:<\/strong> Bulaq Episode 9<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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