Abstract

SALINAS MORAGA, Íñigo. Death Acting as the Catalyst for Miguel Delibes' Novel. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.1, pp.297-318.  Epub Mar 09, 2022. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v24n1.93848.

Even if it is true that the literary constants in Miguel Delibes work are the childhood, fellowship, and nature, it is no less true that practically all his novels gravitate around an obsessive idea: death. Precisely, this thematic recurrence is the fact analyzed in this article: quantitatively because it is not negligible that 364 deaths are explicitly cited in his 26 novels, and qualitatively because it seems difficult to imagine his work without stalking death, because even in these works in which death is not the central issue, it becomes inseparable from the main plot, either as a catalyst for everything else or as an indispensable accessory to the essential. Mainly because death is not an accident in the life work of Delibes, but the main reason that justifies them. The constant presence of death cannot be separated from a certain religious sentiment that Delibes professed, so the last sacramental wishes are reflected in a large number of characters immediately before passing away.

Keywords : Spanish literature; Miguel Delibes; death; novel; religion.

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