Miguel Espinosa

Miguel Espinosa Gironés (Caravaca de la Cruz, Spain, October 4, 1926-Murcia, April 1, 1982) was a Spanish novelist and essayist; he worked in foreign trade and as a legal adviser.

Writer little known by the general public, but recognized by critics and the academic world. Many of his works were published years after they were written; some even posthumously.

Awards

• Barcelona City Award (1974).

Work

• The Great Stages of American History (Bosquejo de una Morfología de la Historia Política Norteamericana), (1957), reissued as Reflections on North America
• School of Mandarines (1974, Barcelona City Award).
• The false triad (published in 1980).

Posthumous

• The confused triad (published in 1984).
• Tribbed. Theologiae Tractatus(published in 1987, joint edition of The false triad and The confused triad).
• Asklepios, the last Greek (published in 1985).
• The ugly bourgeoisie (published in 1990).
• Songs and words (published in 2004).
• History of the Eremite (published in 2012). Alphacheque Editions.
• Letters to Mercedes (published in 2017). Alphacheque Editions.

Unpublished

• Prometheus chained
• Conversations with Europeus
• Gloves and styles
• Form and Revelation of the World
• Preposterius (Philosophical Language)
• Moral letters
• False years

Books about Miguel Espinosa

• Bellón Aguilera, José Luis (2012), Miguel Espinosa, the author ambushed. Granada: Editorial Comares, colecc.«De Guante Blanco». 320 pp. ISBN 978-84-9836-829-1.
• Moraza, José Ignacio (1999), Miguel Espinosa. Power, marginality and language. Kassel.
• Escudero Martínez, Carmen: The analytical literature of Miguel Espinosa. (An Approach to School of Mandarines), Murcia, Consejería de Cultura, Educación y Turismo de Murcia, 1989.
• Polo García, Victorino (ed.), Miguel Espinosa: Congress, Murcia, Regional Editor of Murcia-V Centenario. Autonomous Commission, 1994.
• Espinosa, Juan: Miguel Espinosa", Editorial el Eremita, collection el Candil, Murcia, 2018.www.editorialeleremita.com/publications
• Garcia Jambrina, Luis, Back to Logos: Introduction to the Narrative of Miguel Espinosa, Editions of the Tower, 1998.
• Gallego Rubén Castle: Words in Time. Miguel Espinosa and the Truth, 2002.
• Carrión Pujante, María del Carmen: Miguel Espinosa. The look of desolation. Real Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Murcia, 2005.
• Cervera Salinas, Vicente – Adsuar Fernández, María Dolores - Carrión Pujante, María del Carmen (eds.): The Espinosa treaties. The impossible theology of the bourgeois. Editum, 2006.
• Sánchez Bautista, Francisco: Asklepios or the Yearly Childhood of Miguel Espinosa, 2007.

Thesis on Miguel Espinosa

• Palo Rico, Luciano (1996): The intellectual before society: critical distance and literary strangeness in the narrative of Miguel Espinosa.
• Carrión, Carrión Pujante, María del Carmen (2001): "The Phenomenological Look of Miguel Espinosa"
• Durán, Jaime: Miguel Espinosa and Camilo José Cela: two contemporary classicsUniversity of Temple. Edited by the Cervantes Virtual Library
• Bellón Aguilera, José Luis (2006): literary field and social world in the contemporary Spanish novel: Miguel Espinosa and Juan MarséUniversity of Birmingham – United Kingdom, 1999-2003. Edited by the Cervantes Virtual Library, ISBN 84-611-2713-7. DL: A-883-2006. (CD-ROM).
• Martínez Peña, María del Carmen (2017): Intertextuality in the narrative work of Miguel Espinosa. From School of Mandarins to Tribes University of Seville - Spain.