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Viejas historias y cuentos completos
Este volumen recopila la narrativa breve de Miguel Delibes: sus cuentos, historias y novelas cortas. Varios de ellos están en el origen de las más importantes novelas del autor, voz fundamental en las letras españolas del siglo XX. La vinculación con los animales y la naturaleza, pero también la soledad, el dolor, la codicia, el desamparo y la orfandad, son algunos de los temas recurrentes de su particular mundo literario. De ellos se sirve para revelarnos otras verdades y transformar con oficio de maestro lo trivial en fascinante, como ocurre en «El refugio», «La mortaja» o «El loco». Gustavo Martín Garzo desvela en el prólogo el tema secreto de toda la obra de Delibes y afirma que varios de estos relatos son obras maestras de la alusión y la sugerencia, entre las que pueden hallarse algunas de las páginas más hermosas jamás escritas en nuestra lengua.
536 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2006
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About the author
Miguel Delibes
187 books607 followersMiguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.
He was one of the leading figures of post-Civil War Spanish literature, winning numerous literary prizes. Several of his works have been adapted into plays or have been turned into films, winning awards at the Cannes Film Festival among others. He has been ranked with Heinrich Böll and Graham Greene as one of the most prominent Catholic writers of the second half of the twentieth century. He was deeply affected by the death of his wife in 1974. In 1998 he was diagnosed with colon cancer, from which he never fully recovered.
He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.
He was one of the leading figures of post-Civil War Spanish literature, winning numerous literary prizes. Several of his works have been adapted into plays or have been turned into films, winning awards at the Cannes Film Festival among others. He has been ranked with Heinrich Böll and Graham Greene as one of the most prominent Catholic writers of the second half of the twentieth century. He was deeply affected by the death of his wife in 1974. In 1998 he was diagnosed with colon cancer, from which he never fully recovered.
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September 2, 2022
La mortaja y El loco son buenisilos, los demás hay de todo. Interesante en todo caso esa otra faceta de Delibes
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