Scars of the past
Adam Feinstein is impressed by Juan Goytisolo's haunting fictional memoir, The Blind Rider
The Blind Rider
by Juan Goytisolo
translated by Peter Bush
119pp, Serpent's Tail, £8.99
Saturday 5 November 2005 00.11 GMT
Time is the blind rider, a force nobody can unsaddle, ravaging all that appears enduring, transforming landscapes, reducing dreams to ashes. Juan Goytisolo, Spain's most significant living novelist, began writing this lyrical book of mourning and memory in November 1996, a month after the death of his wife, Monique Lange. It took him six years to complete.
