I had a job once at the US Steel Pipe Works, Geneva Plant, Utah where I took “slag temperatures” before they sprayed “devils liquor” sump water on it to cool it down. They’ll be afraid to commit suicide, and so will their children. Because if I do go on in this frame of mind and continue to support them, I shall teach them to be like I am, and they’ll go on, dragging it out to support their children, and they won’t enjoy it. Or I identify with my children, and I think of them going on without me and nobody to support them. Because there might really be after all eternal damnation. So if you think that’s the way things are, you might as well commit suicide right now. And these mechanics–doctors–are trying to help you out, but they really can’t succeed in the end, and you’re just going to fall apart, and it’s a grim business, and it’s just too bad. And you, poor thing, have to put up with being put into a body that’s falling apart, that gets cancer, that gets the great Siberian itch, and is just terrible. It is a mechanism, it is electronic and neurological mechanisms into which you somehow got caught. Because if you seriously go along with this idea of the world, you’re what is technically called alienated. People who had an advantage to make, a game to play by putting it down, and making out that because they put the world down they were a superior kind of people. Aldana Reyes shows that Spanish writers and filmmakers firmly belong in transnational, transmedia Gothic while providing Spanish Gothic with a distinct identity.But however, you see, this whole idea that the universe is nothing at all but unintelligent force playing around and not even enjoying it is a putdown theory of the world. “Spanish Gothic is a fine pioneering study and an appealing invitation to include ‘Gothic’ in the theoretical vocabulary about the fantastic produced and consumed in Spain. Weimer, Professor of Spanish at Oklahoma State University, USA) Aldana Reyes achieves all three in his ambitious, rewarding Spanish Gothic, an impressively researched book that maps unexplored common ground for scholars of Gothic and Hispanic Studies alike.” (Christopher B. “Worthwhile literary criticism aspires to three not always compatible goals: originality, erudition and clarity.
The historical sweep of his work brings forth new insights on the reach of the Gothic beyond the Anglophone and reveals Spanish culture as steeped in a tradition that is as familiar worldwide as it is peculiarly its own.” (Prof Ann Davies, Chair in Spanish and Latin American Studies at Stirling University, UK, and author of Contemporary Spanish Gothic (2016)) “Aldana Reyes's new book will become the go-to text on Spanish Gothic.
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