La familia de Pascual Duarte se nos revela como una novela histórica sobre la Guerra Civil, henchida de la poética comprometida propia del género picaresco, y de una honda y acerada significación política.
Juan Antonio Garrido Argila has served as professor of Spanish literature and comparative literature at the universities of Edinburgh, Lund and Malta, and as a professor at others in Spain and the United States. Author, coordinator and preparer of a score of books on literature and intellectual thought