The Book of Emotions General The second novel in Juan

The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the

and considered one of the most groundbreaking and significant novels written in Catalan

Interweaving flashes of the horrific Jeju Uprising and the Korean War with pleasant family anecdotes

while single moments are expanded cubistically into entire landscapes

Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers

The Book of Emotions General The second novel in JuanIn a future Brazil, a blind photographer considers a sequence of his old photographs . . . [continued] A blind photographer envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." But without camera or lens, his instruments of optic prosody, he must reconstruct experience as a series of affective snapshots. The result, then, is not the description of a remembered image, but of the emotional memory the image evokes.