Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
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As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.Juan Goytisolo
In Count Julian the process of being dispossessed and breaking with his homeland on the part of the narrator has already taken place.
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In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
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For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.
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Count Julian is, simultaneously, a work of fiction and a work of criticism, which defies deliberately a tyrannical conception of genre.
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