Giles, the boy-goat, translated for the first time into Spanish, is, along with El planador de tabaco, the other eight thousand novels by John Barth and, for many, the best work of the author. Conceived as a parody of the Ur-myth (inspired by the works of Otto Rank and Joseph Campbell) and an allegory of the cold war in key of campus novel (Barth spent much of his life in the university halls), Giles , The child-goat is a prodigious insanity full of humor, wisdom and disenchantment, a complex and carnivalesque text, ambitious and funny, where mythological, theological, political, academic and goat are merging, also in The lexicon. Thus, the universe is a university; The Final Judgment, the dreaded Final Examination to be Approved; And Giles, a young man raised among goats, the hero destined to become Grand Master or spiritual leader of the New Tammany School (U.S. trans.) And the Western Campus, the only one capable of penetrating into the ORDACO , An intricate and monstrous system that can simulate any human activity (calculus, sex drive, emotions ...), and deprogram it. You'll make it? Messianic career for salvation and ultimate answers, satire that rewrites and amalgamates the New Testament, Greco-Roman myths and a thousand other things, Giles, the child-goat was published in 1966, the same year that saw the light The auction Of lot 49 of Pynchon, and is all a reference of American postmodern literature.