by Miguel Delibes · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439595922
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Parable of the shipwrecked is a novel by the Spanish writer Miguel Delibes, published in 1969. The story follows a clerk named Jacobo who, after being fired from his job, decides to build a raft and navigate the Pisuerga River. Through his adventures, Delibes offers a scathing critique of modern society and the alienation of the individual in an increasingly mechanized world.
Miguel 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.
