Miguel Delibes

An ode to tolerance and the liberty of conscience, The Heretic is an unforgettable story of a man and the passions that move him to action.

In this winner of the Premio Nacional de Narrativa, Spain’s most prestigious literary prize, Miguel Delibes takes us into the heart of sixteenth-century Spain. At the very moment Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to a church door and launches the movement that will divide the Roman Catholic Church, a child is born, his fate marked by the political and religious upheaval taking root in Europe. His mother having perished in childbirth, his father alienated and disconnected, Cipriano Salcedo’s only source of affection is his wet nurse and foster mother, Minerva. He grows up to become a prosperous merchant and joins the Reformation movement, which is secretly advancing on the Iberian Peninsula, the historical bastion of the Catholic church. But before long, the Spanish Inquisition will drive the Reformers to put their lives at stake.

Through the story of Cipriano Salcedo, Delibes paints a masterful portrait of the time of Spain’s Charles V and recreates with uncanny accuracy and unparalleled artistry the social and intellectual atmosphere of Europe at one of history’s most pivotal moments.. 

"The novel is astonishing for its quirky vitality. This is less a novel of ideas than an extraordinarily imaginative evocation of provincial life in a past age." The Economist

"(T)he awkwardness makes way for an engaging account of the lives, loves and fate of the wealthy Salcedo family (.....) The delight here is in the detail of Spanish life, particularly of Valladolid." Alison McCulloch, The New York Times Book Review

"Considering the quasi-cinemagical imagery that holds us spellbound page after page, it is easy to overlook the fact that Delibes not only does not fear the monumental implication of his subject but delights in making it accessible at a personal level. (...) The most gratifying aspect of the story, however, for this reviewer, is the author's rendering of past customs and events from our vantage point. While Delibes scrupulously avoids reverse anachronism, he delicately reinterprets the past without stripping it of its character and impact. (...) Even by the Olympian standards of Delibes's earlier novels, El hereje is a milestone." David Ross Gerling, World Literature Today

Delibes completes the Lorenzo Trilogy, formed by the Diary of a Hunter and the Diary of an Emigrant. In this novel, the lovable protagonist spends his time accompanying Don Tadeo Piera, a mediocre provincial poet, harassed by his homosexuality and obsessed with winning the Nobel Prize. At the same time, Lorenzo and his wife, Anita, become compulsive, hopeful participants in television game shows, a symbol of Spanish society at the end of the 20^th century.  

A prestigious painter, sunk in a severe creative crisis, spins his most intimate memories to his daughter in a monologue that is at the same time, a tribute and an exorcism. His story centers around two events: the arrest of two of his sons for political reasons; and the illness and death of his wife, Ana, at the age of 48. She radiated such a sense of beauty and fulfillment that it diluted the gray background of the everyday and even the discomforts of her illness. This is the story of a love in full race towards death, as well as a haunting female portrait.

Set in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War, Delibes's plot chronicles the shifting fortunes of the De la Lastra family, which finds itself divided by politics. Much of the story is seen through the eyes of young Gervasio, who dreams of becoming a military hero. While Gervasio enlists in the Navy in order to fight the Communists, his father, a naturopathic doctor, is imprisoned for more liberal beliefs. The surrealistic horror of war, which directly touches every member of the family, is lightened by farcical domestic dramas.

In 1938, during the Spanish civil war, Miguel Delibes volunteered to join the navy, because otherwise he would be drafted into the infantry and feared the prospect of hand-to-hand fighting. His experience at sea went into Madera de héroe (The Stuff of Heroes), one of his best novels, from his late period when he could publish without worrying about censors. ‘Those of us who were not physically mutilated were psychologically mutilated,’ he wrote of the war.

"The author presents a compelling, superbly executed portrait of a family caught up in the violent disruptions of the war. An important novel by a modern master who late in his career has given us his vision of a tragic period in Spanish history."  Library Journal

A man discovers a Celtic-Iberian treasure whilst ploughing. Soon after, the archaeologists come and start digging. The villagers see them as peculiar men who want to steal what is theirs, other treasures, and a dangerous tension develops. In a poverty-stricken environment, any arguments on behalf of science or culture are pie in the sky, passion is always bubbling to the surface. Trapped between local greed and an excessively zealous Administration, archaeology has very narrow margins within which to pursue its work.

In Love Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian, our antihero, Eugenio Sanz Vecilla, a sixty-five-year-old retired Castilian newspaperman, reads a personal ad in Sentimental Correspondence while in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. Thus begins a six-month exchange of letters with Rocío, a fifty-six-year-old widow from Seville whose son, Federico, is writing a graduate thesis on censorship of the press in the 1940s under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. This novel, an epistolary mono-dialogue, weaves a comic love story with an unwitting exposé of the state of journalism under an authoritarian regime.

A portrait of the precarious life conditions of a family of peasants from Extremadura, crushed by poverty and the oppression of their lords. Amidst this setting of humiliation and injustice, one figure particularly stands out, that of a sixty-one-year-old mentally disabled man named Azarías, a “holy innocent”.

A group of militant young people arrive in a practically empty Castillian town in ruins to campaign for a political party. They are received by Mr.Cayo, one of the two residents left in the town. The contrast between his attitude and the youngsters’ cheerful optimism highlights the enormous differences between two cultures that are completely ignorant of each other.

Transcript of a week's conversations between psychiatrist Burgueno Lopez and Pacifico Perez, a peasant serving a prison sentence for murder. Guided by the doctor's gentle inquiries, Pacifico relates the unfortunate developments that led to his incarceration. Pacifico recalls his father's, grandfather's and great-grandfather's constant exhortations to be a man, and remembers their relish in describing their successful participation in military campaigns. Yet the aptly named Pacifico is more like his brooding, thoughtful grandmother. Rejected by the army, he becomes a beekeeper and is seduced by a girl from a nearby village. When her brother finds out about their affair and appears to challenge them, Pacifico kills him. Although he is relieved to be imprisoned, freed of responsibility, he becomes involved in a botched escape plan in which a guard is killed. Will he be executed for this new crime? 

Quico is about to turn four years old when his sister’s birth makes him feel relegatedto the background. Throughout the course of one day we get a glimpse at his secrets and we see what is making him anxious.

Jacinto, an office clerk, is sent to a company retreat after he collapses from exhaustion and gradually becomes cut off from the outside world.

"From realism to fantasy, the changing perspectives ensure that the reader is kept off-balance. Instead of a single approach, Delibes twists his fiction: elements are pure Kafka, while there's also a good dose of magical realism and some underground-Soviet-inspired absurd black humour. There are numerous powerful scenes (...) And unusual and impressive novel." The Complete Review

Menchu has just lost her husband, Mario, and holds a wake over his body throughout the night. Some underlined paragraphs in the Bible that Mario kept in his bedside table unleash in Menchu a wave of memories and a dense, jumbled monologue in which she reassesses the life they shared, and all the understanding and lack of understanding there was between them.

A portrait of a boy called El Nini and of the Ratcatcher, who inhabit a cave and who live off of the rats they are able to catch. They are both under pressure from the town’s mayor who demands the cave’s immediate evacuation. But Ratcatcher istoo stubborn to accept any of the economic and social offers that are made to him.

Don Eloy repeats over and over to himself that he has got the ‘red page’ in the book of life. He alludes to a page of this colour which, in the fifties, appeared in the little books of rolling papers that warned they were about to run out. With this metaphor and the refrain of ‘retirement is the waiting room for death’, don Eloy, a retired, elderly man forgotten by his only son, shares his solitude with a village maid, Desi, who finds herself as alone and helpless as the old man. The publishing house Destino, published a theatre adaptation in 1986.  

Lorenzo, the protagonist of Diary of a Hunter, has married Anita. Some of her uncles, who live in Chile, encourage them to seek their fortune in America, offering them a home and a job. Through the comical annotations of Lorenzo with their malicious slant, the reader becomes familiar with the day-to-day life of a couple full of hopes and dreams. Their adventures in Chile are accompanied by a subtle psychological analysis of the feelings of the newly-weds, their squabbles and arguments, jealousy and making up, all with their growing disillusionment as they realize it is impossible to make a fortune.

Lorenzo works as a janitor in a school. He supports his mother, has very firm ideas about lots of things, goes hunting in his spare time, and every Sunday when it’s the season. He contemplates the world though his insights as a village lad. His existence, even though narrow and humble, is tempered by pugnacious optimism and clear awareness of his own dignity. To counter the mundane pettiness of life, he can always seek refuge in hunting, which fills his soul with pleasure, from choosing his cartridges to bringing his haul home.  

Cecilio Rubes is a superficial, selfish businessman in his forties who raises his son led only by his desire for the boy’s happiness. He doesn’t care if he hangs out in shady places or if he drops out of school. But he pays the price for his lack of concern when things don’t work out the way he had hoped.

This is an epistolary novel. The narrator, an anodyne bank clerk, tells his brother about his worries after casually meeting a man who could be related to their family’s past and, even to their father’s violent death. 

In El camino, we follow the early years of childhood of Daniel, who lives in a northern Spanish town near the coast. Daniel is torn between the driving ambition of his father (a humble cheesemaker), who has saved all his life to send his son to a private school in the city, and Daniel’s own wish to stay in the village, with his friends, with all the things that he is familiar with. As an 11 year old, happy with the prospect of becoming a cheesemaker like his father, he fails to understand why his father has made them all suffer, depriving the family of basic comforts in life, just to send Daniel to the city to be educated like a gentleman.

In It’s Still Daylight, the second novel by Miguel Delibes, Sebastian, a poor, rather dumb, man, is the butt of the jokes and disdain of his neighbours and is even deceived by the girl he loves and dreams of marrying. He tries to fight all that with an intense inner life, but sordid reality wins out and is more powerful than his spirituality.  

The novel meticulously portrays the life of a provincial city in the 1940s, in the immediate aftermath the Spanish civil war.   

Premio Nadal 1947

Pedro, orphaned since childhood, is sent to Ávila to study under Don Mateo Lesmes’ supervision. Don Mateo will inculcate the boy with the belief that in order to be happy, he must avoid any relationship with the world, any emotions and any affection. Only Pedro’s vitality and youthfulness will be able to help him, years later, overcome the pessimism instilled in him.

This book brings together the stories included in Mi vida al aire libre and Tres pájaros de cuenta and an unpublished story to date, a story written and drawn by the hand of Miguel Delibes himself in his youth.

A collection of stories and short novels with a brief introduction by the writer, The volume brings together Old Tales from Old Castile, The Departure, Siestas with a Southern Wind, The Shroud and the Three Birds of a Feather and Three Forgotten Stories. The prologue is by Gustavo Martín Garzo.  

This book brings together nine stories which focus on several recurring themes in Delibes’ fiction: childhood, death, nature, of neighbours…It highlights the various styles and narrative voices the author loves to create.

There is a way to be a villager, the just as there is a way to be a city dweller, and in Castile, time does not pass in years but centuries. No matter what you do, where you go, everything will stay the same, will be there waiting for you: the houses, the trees, the fields, the old people, the stream that runs through the reeds and even the dust from threshing which has stuck to the walls. 

This book comprises four stories, two set in an urban environment, The Madman and The Rails and two others set in a rural environment, The Shroud and The Walnut Trees. Violence and tenderness alternate in every tale, where lyricism coexists with a cynical view of people, their obsessions and wanderings.

This book has ten short stories. The first and most extensive, The Departure, give its name to the whole of the volume, and it brings together the adventures at sea of a man from Valladolid. The nine other tales focus on life in the provinces.

Originally published in 2005 under the title La Tierra Herida, this book grew out of a series of conversations that took place during the previous summer between Miguel Delibes and his son, Miguel Delibes de Castro.

Acknowledged as one of Spain’s foremost novelists and essayists of the 20th century, Miguel Delibes won every literary award his country had to offer. In 1975 he was elected into the Spanish Royal Academy and used the occasion of his acceptance speech (later to be published under the title A World that is Dying) to make explicit his growing concerns about the future of the planet.

This is a short hunting diary which hunters will thoroughly enjoy, but is also a must for admirers of Delibes’ work.

Bringing together of the first and last chapters of The Book of the Small Game. Both narratives offer psychological analysis of a hunter faced with two very distinct moments, the first and last days of the season, though both are equally emotive. 

This book sums up the beliefs of Miguel Delibes, and he has tried through his novels to make us understand his ideas about progress. He usually did it through characters such as, Daniel el Mochuelo, the young hero in The Way, or Nini, the wise boy in The Rats. Or through the whole of Parable of a Shipwreck.

This volume picks apart some of the hunting experiences lived by Delibes between 1971 and 1974. The writer goes out into the countryside with his rifle, and later writes in his hunting diary the day’s incidents, that are never the same, however alike they seem to be.

In this occasion, the hunter talks about fishing, another one of his hobbies, recounting his journey through the Castilian rivers of Óbrigo and Rudón between 1972 and 1976. Delibes delights us with beautiful descriptions full of humour, attentive to detail, both fluent and spontaneous.

In this hunting book, illustrated with photos by Francisco Ontañón, Delibes runs through the different species which make up what is known as ‘small game hunting’, exploring aspects such as their habitat, customs and traditional and licit hunting practices. The protagonists of this book are then quails, partridges, rabbits, hares, doves, pigeons, ducks, foxes, bustards, woodcocks and grouse. Furthermore, of course, it’s the hunter’s first and last days of the season which begin and end the book in chronicles the writer narrates with his customary sense of humour.

A través de un diálogo entre el Barbas, un viejo y avezado “perdicero”, y el Cazador, el propio Delibes, se glosan reflexiones y comentarios sobre la caza y su ejercicio, al tiempo que se denuncian las prácticas abusivas o la progresiva desaparición de la caza libre. El volumen expresa la preocupación de Delibes ante la ruptura del equilibrio ecológico y sus repercusiones.

A journey through the life and work of a star in the Spanish literary firmament.

This book takes us on a journey, accompanied by the curator of the exhibition in the National Spanish Library, Jesús Marchamalo, the life of Delibes and the keys to his narrative universe: his family, his hobbies, his friends, his creative habits, his meticulous, ordered way of working and understanding literature. All accompanied by photos from his personal archive, drawings and documents as well as an anthology of texts carefully selected by the professor Amparo Medina-Bocos, a great connoisseur of his work. A new modern, updated perspective which allows the reader to get close to the individual and his time, as well as to imagine the close relationship that exists between his personal life and his literary work, two sides of the same coin.  

Delibes rememora los diferentes deportes que ha practicado a lo largo de su vida: desde su temprana afición a la caza como morralero de su padre hasta su pasión por el fútbol, pasando por la práctica del ciclismo, el motociclismo o el tenis. Estas memorias están contadas con un tono desenfadado y lleno de humor. Algunos textos proceden de las obras anteriores Mi querida bicicleta, La vida sobre ruedas y Un deporte de caballeros.

El volumen responde a una idea del editor de Delibes, Josep Vergés, y se basó en la publicación semanal de unas notas en la revista Destino. Durante un año, Delibes comentó todo cuanto le  sugería la realidad cotidiana. El diario comienza el 22 de junio de 1970 y finalizó el 20 de junio de 1971. En él hay reflexiones sobre lecturas, actualidad periodística, contactos y viajes, noticias y anécdotas familiares, y también el comentario al quincuagésimo aniversario del narrador.

Miguel Delibes recoge la crónica de sus aventuras al aire libre durante los últimos cinco años de su vida. No le interesa tanto reproducir sus correrías cinegéticas como mostrar su preocupación por una naturaleza que se degrada, y por la progresiva desaparición de especies. También hace hincapié en las muchas y atractivas “novedades” que el campo desvela a unos ojos acostumbrados a mirarlo. 

La obra reúne artículos de distintas épocas y con temas diversos, si bien el más extenso es el fútbol. Delibes lo practicó en sus tiempos de estudiante y mantuvo su afición como espectador hasta que se impusieron “el superprofesionalismo y la táctica del cerrojo”. Entonces cambió los estadios por el televisor.

Se puede considerar una continuación o segunda parte de El libro de la caza menor, aunque escrita con más desenfado. Perdices, codornices y liebres vuelven a campar por unas páginas que aparecieron originalmente por entregas en el suplemento semanal de El Norte de Castilla entre 1969 y 1970.

Recoge parte de los artículos periodísticos del autor. En ellos, la tristeza existencial se difumina y aparece el padre de familia numerosa que se pelea con los interventores ferroviarios, el aficionado al fútbol que lamenta que el Athletic de Bilbao pierda en la Copa de Europa, el cazador de perdices y, sobre todo, el escritor que eligió ser de pueblo en lugar de conquistar Madrid. 

El conejo habla del aprendizaje de los niños urbanos en el campo. El cuco trata sobre las tensiones que se dan en la naturaleza. Ambas son historias realistas y nada edulcoradas.

El cuco, la granjilla y el cárabo, tres pájaros de cuenta, son los protagonistas de otras tantas historias vividas por Miguel Delibes , en las que el escritor aborda uno de los temas constantes en su obra: la naturaleza. Un castellano rico y preciso, unido a una extraordinaria capacidad de observación, hacen de estos relatos tres pequeñas obras maestras. Tres cuentos más, de muy distinto signo, completan este volumen La vocación, Bodas de Plata y El otro hombre vieron la luz a comienzos de la década de los cincuenta, pero es ésta la primera vez que se publican en forma de libro. Tres personajes bien distintos ?un niño de once años en el que ya está prefigurado Daniel, el Mochuelo, protagonista de El camino; un médico rural con veinticinco años de servicio, y una mujer recién casada que aún no ha cumplido los treinta? protagonizan estos tres cuentos olvidados, escritos en los primeros años de su trayectoria como escritor, pero en los que la maestría narrativa de Miguel Delibes es ya una realidad.

Destinada a un público infantil, la obra reúne cinco capítulos de Mi vida al aire libre (Memorias deportivas de un hombre sedentario). En ellos, Delibes recoge algunas anécdotas de su experiencia como deportista aficionado: tenista, pescador, caminante, nadador y cazador.

Pensada para lectores infantiles, reúne cuatro capítulos de Mi vida al aire libre (Memorias deportivas de un hombre sedentario) en los que Delibes rememora su niñez y juventud. La práctica del ejercicio al aire libre, sobre todo sobre dos ruedas (ciclismo o motociclismo), es el tema de estas páginas. El escritor recuerda que su padre le inculcó su amor por la naturaleza.

Esta obra se basa en el tercer capítulo del libro Mi vida al aire libre (Memorias deportivas de un hombre sedentario), en el que Delibes rememora los diferentes deportes que ha practicado a lo largo de su vida. El volumen destila su afición por el ciclismo.

Una correspondencia única entre maestro y discípulo: Delibes y Umbral, dos grandes figuras de nuestra literatura.

Prólogo de Santos Sanz Villanueva

A finales de los años cincuenta, cuando Miguel Delibes era ya de hecho director de El Norte de Castilla, se incorporó a la redacción del periódico un joven llamado Francisco Umbral. En tiempos difíciles marcados por la censura, el grupo de jóvenes periodistas reunidos en torno al escritor vallisoletano supo hacer de El Norte un reducto de independencia que trató de ensanchar las estrechas fronteras de libertad de que entonces se disponía.

La amistad iniciada en esos años entre Miguel Delibes y Francisco Umbral tuvo continuidad epistolar a partir de 1960, cuando Umbral abandona Valladolid. A lo largo de décadas, las cartas que se intercambiaron muestran la relación afectiva e intelectual que mantuvieron estos dos grandes nombres de la narrativa y el periodismo español. Junto a experiencias personales e inquietudes artísticas, las misivas que ahora se editan —en su gran parte inéditas— constituyen un documento de indudable valor para conocer el panorama periodístico, político, social y literario de una época especialmente interesante de nuestra historia.

La obra recoge la correspondencia entre el autor y su editor, Josep Vergés, cofundador de la revista Destino y de la editorial del mismo nombre. Delibes desestimó en principio la publicación de estas cartas, pero acabó aceptándola por entender que concentraban “el contacto entre dos hombres de buena voluntad, unidos por el afecto antes que por los intereses, y llamados a sostener una fraternidad vitalicia”.

La primera parte, Suecia, incluye seis crónicas: La naturaleza sueca; En tinieblas; Aislamiento y automatización; Espejo del mundo; La convivencia sueca; y Lo español en Suecia. La segunda parte, Diario de un viaje por los Países Bajos, hilvana catorce capítulos, uno por cada día de aquel periplo emprendido en 1981. Ambos viajes se hicieron para pronunciar conferencias en diferentes universidades.

La obra narra, en forma de diálogo con un interlocutor desconocido, la visita que Delibes hizo a Checoslovaquia en la primavera de 1968, meses antes de que se produjera la intervención soviética. El escritor presenció el intento de liquidar las viejas estructuras estalinistas, y la búsqueda de nuevas y esperanzadoras formas de un socialismo democrático.

El libro tiene 33 crónicas o capítulos. Recogen las experiencias de Miguel Delibes durante los seis meses de 1964 que pasó en la Universidad de Maryland como profesor visitante del Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Extranjeras. En ese tiempo, el escritor visitó los estados de Nueva York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachussetts, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan y Ohio, y de todos nos ofrece sus sagaces impresiones y comentarios, fruto casi siempre del asombro.

El autor transmite sus impresiones sobre cuatro países europeos: Italia, Portugal, Alemania y Francia. Él mismo definió el trabajo como “un repertorio de observaciones fugaces sobre algunos países de la Europa de nuestro tiempo, observaciones que a algunos podrán servirles de estímulo para visitarlos, a otros, de punto de apoyo para recordarlos, y a los más, ¡ay!, de sucedáneo para imaginar lo que, por una razón o por otra, nunca podrán conocer”.

La obra recoge las mismas crónicas de viajes de Un novelista descubre América. Chile en el ojo ajeno, publicada en 1956, y añade un capítulo original: la escala en Tenerife.

En la primavera de 1955, Miguel Delibes visitó distintos países de Sudamérica: Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina y Chile. Tras esa estancia, publica una serie de crónicas en la revista Destino. Un año después aparecieron recopiladas en forma de libro. 

The great writer’s speeches collected for the first time in book form. 

Miguel Delibes gave his first speech on the occasion of his acceptance in the Real Academia Española in 1975, and over time it has become a literary gem with a message that is now more important than ever and undoubtedly one of the main themes of his work: how progress in modernity can kill nature, and with it, an essential component of our own humanity. Reading Delibes leads us to reflect on topics as diverse as ecology, freedom of expression or the ethical dimensions of writing. In these texts we find the pleasure of the precise word that names reality with unparalleled accuracy and beauty that we recognize from Delibes as narrator, and that also rescues us from the facile stance of not thinking that reigns in the society of today.  

Incluye extractos de El camino; Por esos mundos. Sudamérica con escala en las Canarias; Siestas con viento sur; La hoja roja; Las ratas; Viejas historias de Castilla la vieja; El príncipe destronado; Los santos inocentes; Tres pájaros de cuenta; Mi vida al aire libre; y He dicho.

Selección de textos procedentes de Mi vida al aire libre, La alegría de andar y El último coto. En esos textos, el escritor describe razas de perros y comportamientos, y transmite historias y curiosidades de los fieles compañeros que compartieron su vida y la de sus hijos. Las ilustraciones de los perros que protagonizan el libro se realizaron a partir de fotografías del archivo de la familia Delibes, lo que permite un acercamiento visual a los protagonistas.

Acompañados de abundante material gráfico, los textos antologados en este libro de gran formato aparecen agrupados en cuatro apartados: `Mi ciudad, mi provincia, mi gente´; `Semblanzas´; `Recuerdos y nostalgias´ y `Narraciones´. Los fragmentos, seleccionados por Ramón García Domínguez y Ciro García Jiménez, proceden tanto de novelas y cuentos del autor en los que alude a su ciudad natal, como de artículos de prensa, libros de carácter autobiográfico, cuadernos de caza, discursos, guiones de documentales televisivos y obras misceláneas.

En siete volúmenes:

• Obras Completas I. “El Novelista I (1948-1954)”. Prólogo de Giuseppe Bellini. Introducción de Ramón García Domínguez. Edición al cuidado de Ignacio Echeverría. Libros incluidos: La sombra del ciprés es alargada; Aún es de día; El camino; Mi idolatrado hijo Sisí; y La partida.
• Obras Completas II. “El Novelista II (1953-1962)”. Libros incluidos en el volumen: Diario de un cazador; Diario de un emigrante; Diario de un jubilado; La hoja roja; Las ratas; y cinco novelas cortas, El loco, Los raíles, La mortaja, Los nogales y La barbería. El prólogo es de Gonzalo Sobejano.
• Obras Completas III. “El Novelista III (1964-1978)”. El volumen comprende las novelas de madurez de Miguel Delibes: Cinco horas con Mario; Las guerras de nuestros antepasados; El disputado voto del señor Cayo. También recoge casi todos los relatos breves escritos entre 1949 y mediados de los sesenta. Como novedad, se publica un cuento olvidado, El recuerdo, de 1949.
• Obras Completas IV. “El Novelista IV (1981-1998)”. Este cuarto volumen reúne algunas de las novelas más celebradas: Los santos inocentes; Cartas de amor de un sexagenario voluptuoso; El tesoro; Madera de héroe; Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris; y El hereje, con la que Delibes puso punto final a su trayectoria novelística. Cuenta, además, con una nota del académico Pere Gimferrer. Completa el volumen el cuento titulado La Milana, de 1963, a partir del cual surgiría años después la novela Los santos inocentes..
• Obras Completas V. “El cazador”. Reúne gran parte de los escritos cinegéticos de Delibes: La caza de la perdiz roja; El libro de la caza menor; Con la escopeta al hombro; La caza en España; Prólogo a un libro sobre la caza de patos que no llegó a escribirse; Aventuras, venturas y desventuras de un cazador a rabo; Mis amigas las truchas; Las perdices del domingo; El último coto; El fin de la perdiz roja silvestre; y artículos dispersos sobre la caza. .
• Obras Completas VI. “El periodista, el ensayista”. Reúne ensayos y textos escritos para su publicación en prensa, con temas tan diversos como la Tierra y sus pobladores, Castilla y los castellanos, la literatura, el cine o el fútbol. En el volumen tienen cabida las críticas cinematográficas, las adaptaciones teatrales de tres de sus textos (Cinco horas con Mario, La hoja roja y Las guerras de nuestros antepasados) y La Tierra herida, una conversación de Delibes con su hijo Miguel Delibes de Castro sobre el futuro del planeta.
• Obras Completas VII. “Recuerdos y viajes”. Aúna la producción memorialística y de viajes de Miguel Delibes: Mi vida al aire libre; Un año de mi vida; Por esos mundos; Europa: Parada y fonda; U.S.A. y yo; Dos viajes en automóvil; La primavera de Praga; y Recuerdos y amigos.

Este libro presenta una recopilación de textos sobre la caza del escritor vallisoletano. La selección la hizo y editó el escritor Ramón García Domínguez.

De niño no se comprende el lejano mundo de los adultos. Y cuando se ha crecido, se olvida por completo qué significaba la vida vista desde los parámetros de la infancia. Delibes nos devuelve a la piel de un niño y nos muestra el mundo a través de sus ojos curiosos e inocentes.

En esta autoselección con sus mejores textos sobre Castilla y sus gentes, Delibes alterna el comentario reflexivo, serio, preciso y crítico de la realidad, y unos textos narrativos que la representan y resucitan en su continuo y cotidiano fluir. Con una sabia graduación de humor e ironía, de compasión y sentido moral, el escritor vallisoletano brinda una visión profunda y exacta de Castilla y de su modo de existir.

Subtitulado Antología de obras del autor para niños de 11 a 14 años, es una selección realizada por el mismo Delibes con aquellas de sus obras que pueden interesar más a los jóvenes lectores. Consisten en “aventuras de niños, historias de animales o impresiones curiosas de mis viajes por el mundo”, según sus propias palabras. Cada pasaje va precedido de una introducción del escritor, en la que explica la obra a la que pertenece.

Miguel Delibes desgrana su vida literaria y su obra, y nos ilumina con clarividentes apreciaciones sobre sus coetános. Con la integridad y el rigor que lo caracterizan, el autor ofrece un fresco espontáneo y veraz que aúna la visión sobre sí mismo y sobre otros escritores que también protagonizaron la resurrección de la novela tras la Guerra Civil.

El volumen tiene seis capítulos: La tierra y sus pobladores; Mundos de papel; El cine cumple un siglo, Adiós a los amigos; Las cosas de la vida; y Una vida vivida. En ellos, Delibes pasa revista a la situación de los agricultores españoles en la Unión Europea, a las manipulaciones periodísticas, o a cuestiones relacionadas con la ecología y la naturaleza. Asimismo evoca recuerdos, retrata a amigos, expresa opiniones literarias o cinematográficas...

En esta obra, Miguel Delibes entabla conversación con sus lectores sobre los temas más diversos. El escritor invita a conocer sus días como periodista en los férreos años cuarenta, transmite sus ideas sobre la ecología o la caza, reflexiona sobre el aborto o el progresismo, opina de fútbol, escribe sobre la violencia, el cine, la literatura, o narra sus vivencias junto a Joaquín Garrigues o Francisco de Cossío.

Recopilación de 32 coloquios que nos hacen ver y comprender una Castilla desconocida. Delibes ha recorrido los pequeños pueblos, piensa en la sequía, en la pobreza del campo, en el abandono oficial... Sin duda, Castilla fue muy hermosa a principios del siglo XX, cuando la describía Azorín. Pero la realidad que muestra Delibes es otra muy distinta.

La obra incluye diez ensayos breves que reflexionan en torno a la creación literaria: desde cómo influyen las condiciones de libertad en la escritura hasta un análisis personal de tendencias, obras y autores de la literatura universal. Uno de los capítulos recoge la experiencia de Miguel Delibes como periodista de El Norte de Castilla durante la primera época de la dictadura del general Franco.