by Miguel Delibes · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420611648
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«Viejas historias de Castilla la Vieja» is the collection of short stories by Miguel Delibes published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (153 pages, in Spanish).
An emigrant who returns to his village after many years evokes rural Castilian life at the beginning of the 20th century: routine, superstition, backwardness and poverty, along with rootedness and community life. The book is completed with «La caza de la perdiz roja», a dialogue between an old partridge hunter and a hunter about hunting.
The book belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, number 164, Literature section, published by Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
For readers of Spanish narrative and contemporary fiction with an interest in the rural Castilian 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.
