The Author: Luis Goytisolo, born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1935, began publishing in 1958 with his first novel, Las afueras. He is the author of ten other novels, among them the epic Antagonía, and other books that include essays, short stories, and experimental fiction. Goytisolo received the Spanish National Prize for Literature for his novel, Estatua con palomas (1993) and is a member of the Real Academia Española de Lengua. He regularly contributes editorials to many Spanish newspapers and has also scripted a travel program, Indico, for Spanish television. The Luis Goytisolo Foundation in El Puerto de Santa María hosts an annual international symposium on Hispanic literature and is involved in other projects, including Spanish language education for foreigners. The Translator: Pamela J. DeWeese is Professor of Spanish Language, Culture and Literature at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.A. and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DeWeese is the author of Approximations to Luis Goytisolo’s ‘Antagonía’ (Peter Lang, 2000) and of articles and reviews on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature in Spain, as well as the biography of Luis Goytisolo for the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Spanish Fiction Writers (2006).