Luis Goytisolo (Barcelona, 1935) won the Brief Library Prize with his debut, Las afueras. Among its many titles, Antagonía stands out: Anagrama published in 2012 for the first time in a single volume its four volumes, which consecrated him as a fundamental author of the 20th century: «An experiment that tries to renew the content and form of the traditional novel, following the example of those paradigms that revolutionized the genre of the novel or at least tried it -especially Proust and Joyce, but also James, Broch and Pavese-, without renouncing a certain moral and civic commitment to a historical reality that, although very diluted, it is always present, sometimes in the proscenium and sometimes as the backdrop for the novel »(Mario Vargas Llosa); «One thousand one hundred pages of literature in its purest state» (Darío Villanueva); «A consolidated classic and a groundbreaking novel at the same time. Dante Alighieri gives Goytisolo the inspiration for a literary construction that is not only vast and lapidary, elaborate in its architecture and exquisite in its details, but, more importantly, it has provided a paradigm for the type of work that it does justice to both the integrity of individual consciousness and the myriad experiences and influences that make up their universe ”(Michael Kerrigan, The Times Literary Supplement). In Anagrama he has also published Estela del fuego que aleja (Critics Prize), Nature of the novel (Anagrama Essay Prize), The dream of Saint Louis, The traffic jam and other fables and Coincidences. Luis Goytisolo, National Narrative Prize and National Literature Prize, is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
