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From me to my seif, the distance is immense. Enticing the reader to par- ticipate in the search for the broken strings, blurred traces, and faint echoes of the seif, Juan Goytisolo’ poem invokes questions ab out identity in relation to space and time, integrity and displacement, immanence and transcendence. He sets the mood and mode for an introspective drama of suturing scattered segments of the seif, whose presence vibrates through space but betrays a metaphysical absence of answers.
Del yo al yo la distan da es inmensa. Cuerda sobre el vado Cömo reunir los extremos compilar la infmita dispersion de una vida? Memoria rota, luz vesperal. Cruda materia o signo?
—Juan Goytisolo, Hujos momentäneos1
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Buturović, A. (2002). Imagining Bosnia of Texts and Contexts. In: Stone Speaker. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299156_2
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