La figura del padre en "El Espíritu de la colmena": un ser subyugado y obnubilado por la colmena

LOMILLOS, Miguel Ángel

Publication year:

2000

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1137-4438

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Summary

The father is the key adult figure in .El Espiritu de la Colmena., a film about the process of initiation to life of a girl in an especially painful moment of the Franquist period, one year after the end of the Civil War. The inside crisis, the loneliness, the parent.s existential void and that of adults in general all suggest a feeling of failure and of loss. The father, however, is the figure that shows the contradictions of the historical metaphor of the beehive in more detail. The ambiguity of his attraction/ rejection by the beehive that is verified in his life as an apiculturist / writer is the axis around which this text has been written.