As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.