SOURCE: “La paradigmática historia de Caperucita y el lobo feroz: Juan Goytisolo's use of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in Reivindicación del conde don Julián,” in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. LXV, No. 2, April, 1988, pp. 141-51.

Six teaches at Queen Mary College, London, and is the author of Juan Goytisolo: The Case for Chaos. In the following essay, Six traces the development of the “Little Red Riding Hood” story and asserts that Goytisolo's version of the tale in Reivindicación del Conde Don Julián exhibits the author's “preference for chaos over order.”

Juan Goytisolo's re-working of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in Reivindicación del conde don Julián produces a radically unconventional, psychoanalytical version of the tale.¹ This article seeks to analyse it in the light of research by folklorists, psychologists, and social historians, with the aim of providing a new reading which, it will...