El Castillo de cristal II.

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological...

«Sobre la narrativa de Miguel Espinosa, sobre su condición extrañada e inusual, sobre su íntima coherencia y su confianza ciega en el lenguaje como instrumento que explica la realidad, a la vez que disuelve sus trampas, versa 'La vuelta al logos...'»

Situada en la tradición de la novela pastoril española y en deuda tanto con la “Arcadia” de Jacopo Sannazaro como con la lírica eclógica clásica y moderna, “La Galatea” es un “cercado laberinto” de amor y de poesía y un “lazo” de narraciones. Es, ciertamente, una novela de novelas en la que, sobre un relato primario esencialmente pastoril que oficia de hilo conductor, se suspenden, en ponderado equilibrio, hasta cuatro secundarios: el de Lisandro y Leonida; el de Teolinda, Artidoro, Leonarda y Galercio; el de Timbrio y Silerio, y el de Rosaura, Grisaldo y Artandro....