This collection of essays looks at the most recent work of Juan Goytisolo from a variety of perspectives and critical stances. The contributors all specialists in the work of the Spanish author employ theories of intertextuality postmodernist irony queer ethics and even the esoteric science of Hurusm to uncover the complexities of Goytisolos creative practice in particular his radical blurring of the generic boundaries between fiction autobiography and literary criticism. Such challenging of genre conventions is seen as both integral to the authors own questioning of his identity as an expression of his radical dissidence and essential to the response his work evokes in the reader. Life and writing autobiography and ction constitute the interconnecting poles of Goytisolos artistic universe. The essays included in this volume explore the varying patterns of conuence of these twin strands in the writers later work as a whole but particularly in novels such as Las semanas del jardn 1997 and Carajicomedia 2000. The essays are set in context by a contribution from Juan Goytisolo himself in which he sums up his philosophy of life and writing as a pursuit of nonprotable knowledge.