For 45 years the expatriate Goytisolo has been both widely acknowledged as Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic. This two-volume autobiography, first published in the 1980s, broke new ground in Spanish letters with its introspective sexual and emotional honesty.

This masterful two-volume autobiography first published in the mid-1980s, broke new ground in Spanish letters with its introspective sexual and emotional honesty.