page_title: Luis Goytisolo
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Luis Goytisolo / Career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Luis Goytisolo, Feria del Libro 2015, Madrid, España.
context_page_description: Luis Goytisolo Gay is a Spanish Catalan writer in the Spanish language. He is best known for his tetralogy Antagonía, which was published between 1973 and 1981. Goytisolo is a member of the Real Academia Española.
context_section_description: Goytisolo was born on 17 March 1935 in Barcelona. He is the younger brother to José Agustín Goytisolo and Juan Goytisolo. He started studying law in 1953 but quit shortly afterwards to dedicate himself to literature and a political struggle against Francoist Spain.
  In 1963 he was locked up for four months in the Carabanchel Prison for being a supporter of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia/Communist Party of Spain. Part of this period he spend in isolation. During his time in prison he started to write his novel Antagonía. He used used pieces of toilet paper to write upon.
  His tetralogy Antagonía is considered by El Mundo to be one of the best novels of the 20th century. In 2012 it was published in a single book. The first English translation of Antagonía (Antagony) will be published by Dalkey Archive Press in four volumes, the first coming out in 2017.
  In March 2015 Goytisolo donated 57 boxes of his personal archives to the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
caption: Goytisolo in 2015
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