When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Paisajes de guerra: Sarajevo Argelia Palestina Chechenia (2001). After her death he is noted as saying their once shared Paris apartment had become like a tomb. Carajicomedia (2000).

He lives in a voluntary self-exile in Marrakech. Juan Goytisolo (born 6 January 1931 in Barcelona) is a Spanish poet essayist and novelist.