Although many papers and studies that have been made and will continue making on the work of this great writer, I collect these lines in my humble opinion of the memories I have, after read and reread his extensive work.
It has been reflected as one soul, life and customs of this region of Castilla, with its epicenter in Valladolid where he spent his life. Although he had good chances, never wanted to leave his native Valladolid and Castile be the stage where he developed his extensive literary work. Born in Valladolid is the third of eight children on October 7, 1920 and died in the same after serving 89 years on March 12, 2010.
would be pointless for me to say that Delibes was the modern writer who has best expressed in the rich Castilian language, using modes with great expertise and money that ordinary people use, and which are the expression of good talk about our ancestors.
Although officially not written any memory left, without prejudice that may arise and we let them indirectly expressed, since in each of his novels reveals intimate aspects of his personality that show a very fair man.
Four things are those agreed to Delibes was the great writer became:
1 st) The range of business law which did, to continue the family tradition, enamored of the way of writing that was your teacher Garrigues.
2 ª) Having entered the newspaper Norte de Castilla, first cartoonist after the war and doing book reviews, movies etc.
3 rd) The award Nadal, who won his first novel "The shadow of the cypress is long."
and 4 th) and main aid his girlfriend first and wife after LA Castro , which prompted the love of reading by also mentor and Minister of the novice writer.
According
own confession three games were decisive in his life: in 1947 he won the Nadal Prize, 1974, his wife died in Los Angeles and in 1990 it is 70 years that had set a target of their activities, both sporting and literarias.La influence of his father Adolfo Delibes was instrumental in shaping her character as told in great novel "My life outdoors", which remembers your preferred enseñanzas. A su madre Maria Setién la recuerda siempre al cuidado de la casa. Aunque siempre tuvo varias criadas, la compra y la reparación de la ropa siempre fue cosa suya. Era una consumada cazadora de los chinches que abundaban en las camas, relata Delibes con una sinceridad que le honra, y con no menos ternura confesaba que su madre hacía de dos cuatro y que las sabanas tenían más puntadas que la fábrica de Sabadell donde las hicieron.
Le gustaba jugar al fútbol y montar en bicicleta y como el sueldo de su padre was not to buy new books had to be content with his brothers used books.
where his father was so cheap was in the purchase and arrangements of bicycles which instilled in her children the love of the outdoors and sports.
is a famous anecdote which has Delibes, how her father when his brothers met six years they tied a rope around his waist and threw them into the water holding a while, until after a week were released to swim alone. The slings
passed to the air rifle, which his father gave him for the Kings when I was eleven.
In the novel "Wooden hero recounts the beginning of the rise of the civil war of thirty-six. Although Valladolid always been in the country, recalls that her mother was never very fond of the Falange and at home there was never a blue shirt. As an expression of his religiosity, his mother gave them all the brothers a little cross on the lapel, which was cause for more than a confrontation with the kids Republicans.
At age 18 he enlisted in the Navy volunteer, was appointed to the cruiser Canarias . After the war he graduated at the age of 19 years.
account in the novel "A year of my life" that the only pleasure he had in the cruise was out to sea from the deck and enjoy swimming taking several meters deep water, so that many colleagues did not dare to do so. The war in comparison as the drama of Cain and Abel, since the two sides was much cruelty. Ill to the right were those on the left and to the left of the right.
In "The wars of our ancestors" Delibes uses war as a backdrop is not committing to either side for fear of censorship, which existed when he wrote these books.
When the war is Valladolid with a father in about 70 years, eight siblings by post, completed high school and three years of commercial expertise. Economic demands led him to study law and commerce, with the urge to spend little and quick study, appearing in various competitive rather difficult.
Spurred by the need to accurately and simply wrote the captions "It's still day" and "Road", which denoted and good manners of imminent author.
Under the pseudonym of "MAX" (M de Miguel, A and X Angela unknown) a hundred pesetas a month is dedicated to making caricatures of every living creature in the Norte de Castilla and taking advantage of political cleansing that was after the war enters single contributor. After making a three-month course in journalism school in Madrid and was the template.
"In my life outdoors" Delibes tells in great detail their financial hardships and beatings that had to be a bike if I wanted to see his girlfriend Angeles. He also confesses that she was the one who channeled his love of reading and encouraged him to write.
detail and sincerity Which tells us about his troubles in his marriage! He says not released or a shirt and she had to settle for a black suit, despite being, by then, a sacrilege not to go white.
This particular costume fondly remembers just the 25 th anniversary of their wedding. He also said the gifts were made at the request of hand. He gives her a bicycle and a typewriter as something premoritorio of what she thought was going to be.
For the nine months and half had their first child and with great enthusiasm from both started writing " The shadow of the cypress is long" which earned him Nadal and was the creative starting life as a writer. Nadal The award is dedicated to his wife and son and their parents. The fifteen thousand pesetas gave the prize money was then quite Delibes and much more for only 1000 pesetas earned as a professor in business school and 500 pesetas in the newspaper the North. This money can cover the costs of their second daughter Angeles and the rest as good Castilian, administered it as best he could until he got a disease he had, and took the rest.
since the birth of their children and the publication of his new novels come out almost simultaneously. Therefore the birth of seven children who had considered him as the most natural thing in the world.
In the novel "It's still day," explains in detail the feelings of a child to be alone and helpless. Censorship removed the erotic wanderings of a poor hunchback, but he did not hesitate to admit any tricks of the black market, much in vogue in those years.
In "The Way" Delibes receive the first surprise, because despite having written a chapter a day, was well accepted by all critics. With this he realized that it was best write as he spoke, with little adornment, and since this novel was carried away by his natural instinct as good results had given him.
The plot of this novel can not be easier. Count the vicissitudes of a small town through Daniel eyes of a child, nicknamed the Little Owl and his two inseparable friends, and Tiñoso Moniga. With their fortunes, wisely managed, forms the profile the town where the author spent many summers of his childhood. As
account at "My life outdoors, the bike went to the bike Montesa, which despite its small engine seemed like a locomotive. With what pride and satisfaction that burden has on the bike with his wife!
was once dared to go on a motorcycle to Santander, but to raise the ports of Los Angeles had to jump the bike up so he could crown the port, as the two could not.
In "My son adolatrado Sisi" criticizes a highly topical issue, as is having an only child. The main character always tries to enjoy the pleasures of life. When his wife announces that she will have a child does not need this education, which he says is poor, and gives few quirks asked his son, starting in wild sex as a reflection of parent behavior. Civil war erupts and her father gives you a little dangerous destination. But the hero dies and Sisi unable to bear his absence, he kills himself.
In "Diary of a hunter " Delibes tested another new method of making a novel. The system of making the protagonist a journal serves for using vulgar language take overtones of naturally expressed in the jargon of the hunter, almost always exaggerated and talkative. It also includes an explicit account of how to hunt, especially the partridge. This was his favorite game in the purest version practiced on Sunday, with the dog and gun on his shoulder out to the country to find the part nobly, with good legs and better view.
"The death of a hunter" is dedicated to the death of his father Adolfo Delibes to 81, so enamored of the field as a youth. Hunting continued to exercise until he failed the physical and not be ran home to fishing practiced until his last days.
In "Diary of an emigrant" captures the adventures of his trip to Chile, Brazil and Argentina, which gave him material to write several travel books, very well documented.
"The lady in red on the gray background is a literary tribute to his loving wife, whom he calls Anne in the novel, which was an absolute star in the life of the author. She was happy for 48 years since his death he exclaimed: "! Is dead the better half of myself!"
I can not resist telling you to stop a passage which has in this novel that demonstrates the mutual understanding and love that always occurred in this couple. Angeles, in addition to helping Delibes as an accomplished secretary, saw fit to prepare a paragraph and soundproofed office to write more relaxed. In deference to her is confined in the few days but had to give up, because in that silence could not write anything, having to return to his old desk from which to appreciate the noise they produced seven children playing around the house.
In "red leaf", a title alluding to the color sheet that appeared in the cigarette paper booklets already there was little warning. This picture makes us reflect on how fleeting this life passes.
"Rats" is an indictment of the prostration of the environment Castilian rural. The protagonist hunted rats, here called watering places, with the help of a punch and a puppy. To survive you charge to sell to Nini, a child prodigy who knows more than anyone, with an intuitive knowledge that transcends and illuminates the brutality and dirt that dominates the room without his spot at all. This environment is so poor and miserable was understood by other Castilian, Antonio Jiménez-Rico who filmed this novel 35 years later, shooting many shots in the next town deArroyo Population.
In "Old stories of Castilla la Vieja" tells the story of a young peasant in a Castilian village, hard and sparing afanar pate in the field. Lorenzo emigrated to America, that's the name of the protagonist. When he returns, after many years, find they are nothing had changed in his village, except those, which were all for him the son of so and so. All other things remained unchanged.
"Five hours with Mario" is the monologue of a young widow with the body of her husband Mario. At first it was recited by the Valladolid confidently Conchita Velasco was then known by this nickname. Monologue is subtly introducing the author all the gaps on this earth, and bad roads, poor harvests, muddy streets in winter and dusty in summer. Given this crude picture it to sweeten their best to confuse the censors, Delibes asks a question that comes now now Who can wonder that young people run away? Since this question was asked 44 years have passed and the problem is not resolved nor has sought a fundamental answer.
In "Living a day" says the author how difficult it was then living in the pen and more in your case with the super family numerous than I had. In his maintenance and education spent everything he earned as head of the Norte de Castilla and collaborated on several more, and pay for Commercial School professor.
Copyright for published novels had to negotiate upwards of fifteen to veinticincomil pesetas monthly. It is in this novel situation where more detailed not very well off economically.
In the "Parable of the castaway" We know that Delibes, as a result ofa trip to Prague, he was afraid of both the left-wing dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, and by the right wing in Spain. It also tells the first student riots at the University of Madrid and the first fatal bombing of a civilian guard perpetrated by ETA.
In "The Prince dethroned" tells the story of a boy of three years, with mimes of his parents and five siblings is very happy twelve waking hours. But all this will crash when it reaches a sister than a year. Here is shown the great veteran of the author leading to very well defined, a child of three years.
's novel "The disputed vote Mr Key" is one that I have read several times, pleased at how well you're in it reflected the environment and characters that still survive today in these small towns in which we live.
a mystery to me is not easy to explain why a city man as the perpetrator been able to penetrate the cultural heritage that has been so tight in these tiny communities Castilian countryside. Only with the fine prospect of visiting many villages semidespoblados Delibes is possible to writing this novel, so firmly attached to the harsh reality.
His argument is a fine irony of the campaign that some candidates seeking to gain the votes of Mr Key. In this Sr described as the archetype of the Castilian peasant, a man of integrity, sober and good retranca slaughtered, bringing the candidates head, which they assumed at first how easy it would be to get your vote. Delibes's novel contrasts two ways of life and languages: The urban and rural. Every word of Mr Key contains a sentence, however the candidate is a Chiquilicuatre Rafa glibly and little substance. In this town of the novel there were only two old men who did not speak, as unfortunate example of selfishness and jealousy so pernicious and useless.
"The Holy Innocents" is the novel where the characters are portrayed with a unique mastery. The innocent Azariah, Master Ivan, the Regula and her husband Paco el Bajo, her children and invalid Charito girl girl and others who make up the most representative of this unique novel. In this arrangement of the characters added another no less rare because there are no points at the end of each chapter, using only the coma and very rarely the semicolon. The episode of the literacy of young gentlemen who came from the city, is a critique of the mess that is formed with the different sounds they make certain consonants according to the accompanying vowel. The novel reads smoothly and is enough for the author to dispense with the conventional sign for an unusual and brilliant effect.
Given the popularity of this novel reached filmmaker Mario Camus brought to the screen with a star cast. Among them, the Paco Rabal Azarias playing the innocent. To interpret it as perfectly as it did had to be trained thoroughly and enlarged corduroy suit and patched plaid pants that used in the film, said he had to walk many people that tried to find the most suitable. Alfredo Landa also stressed in his character of Paco the Short and in his role as secretary of Iban hunting gentleman, played by Juan Diego. Paco Rabal and Alfredo Landa were rewarded for their performance and have two strings to me, are seminal. The first of the hanging of the Master and the second by how well they learned to imitate the crawling a hunting dog.
The publication of this novel, a somewhat anomalous, as a critique of the very strict guidelines of the academicians, raised between preventing or do not know if envious of the success logrado.Esto led to a covert campaign to discredit the author, saying he could not write more than the field and partridges.
Proof that he could write as well as the best Delibes began data collection and construction of the plot of his best novel.
"The Heretic " , a novel that took four years to write. With it got a different work, with passion and intelligence warning slow getting one of the best summaries of the literature. Although not want to do a historical novel, finally came out of style, but set in the sixteenth century. Cipriano of the Lutheran sect Valladolid is the protagonist who suffers the persecution of the Catholic Church through the Inquisition, which then ruled everything.
"The Heretic" is the most dense and full that I have written, said Delibes and was surprised to also praise the Catholic hierarchy, religion profess he said, though with much doubt that tormented him.
funny thing is that even the Protestants in 2007 the prize awarded to Delibes Unamuno exemplary behavior Cipriano had before dying at the stake.
"The wounded Earth" written in the lemon Delibes Delibes father and son in 2005. In it, the scientific expertise of the child is a bit inconsistent with the naturalness of the father, so that the mixture remains the interest of other novels have given us their unconditional readers.
I put an end to these portraits, because when I started I did not think we'd be so extensive, but the mere enumeration of the 22 titles that have spanned his time, although not to each more than the minimum that I remember, being some detail in the inkwell.
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Its distribution may facilitate reading, choosing to everyone's taste.
I thank the provincial bookmobile that after these years I provided these copies.
if I am satisfied with these portraits achieved contribute something to the biography of Miguel Delibes, the great popular classic of our literature
