A BRIEF TYPOLOGY OF CHILDREN CHARACTERS IN MIGUEL DELIBES’ NOVELS
A BRIEF TYPOLOGY OF CHILDREN CHARACTERS IN MIGUEL DELIBES’ NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: Miguel Delibes, one of the prodigious Spanish novelists of mid-20th century, places great emphasis on his characters whom he considers as the axis of the narrative. Through his characters, Delibes gives us the pulse of an era, and the way to see it is through their actions and the spaces in which they develop thoroughly. His favourite characters are children of all types and ages. Starring a child was something new for the time and an act of courage if we think that he used them to indirectly present the problems of Spanish society, his thoughts and concerns, which otherwise couldnřt be possible due to massive cenzorship. One first typology of his children characters is that according to their social background, situation in which we can talk about urban or rural children. Within this classification, however, his children characters acquire different meanings and roles, which will turn them into narrative archeypes such as the orphan, the friend, the wise, the spoiled, the victim or the mediator. The present study emphasizes that the simplicity and sensitivity with which these children characters are described or presented, transform them into unforgettable characters who are represantative of Delibesř novels.

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