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Juan Goytisolo is among many contemporary writers who have reflected on Cervantes in some of their works. We find these reflections not only in his creative writing but also in his essays, where his interest in different facets of the Islamic world is evident. It is noteworthy that Goytisolo relates to Cervantes both in his own poetics and in his existential choices. On the one hand, his works aim to destroy Spain¿s historical and literary tradition, but on the other, thanks to Cervantes, they recover a bond with Spain and his roots. The genetic bond that links Goytisolo with Cervantes was developed in an essay in his Crónicas sarracinas (1981), chronologically contemporary with his novel Makbara (1980). In both works Goytisolo elaborates on the problematic relationship between the Islamic world and the West. The two aspects analyzed here are: the political one, in which a parallel is drawn between the ¿Grand Turk¿/Christendom dichotomy and the two contemporary ideological blocks; and the vital one, because both Cervantes and Goytisolo have had direct experience of the Islamic world.
