Perspective and temporality in El camino by Miguel Delibes: From ambiguity to paradox Cover Image

Perspectiva y temporalidad en El camino de Miguel Delibes: desde la ambigüedad hasta la paradoja
Perspective and temporality in El camino by Miguel Delibes: From ambiguity to paradox

Author(s): Triin Lõbus
Subject(s): Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: narrative perspective; narrative temporality; ambiguous perspective; El camino;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to explore the narrative composition of the novel El camino by Miguel Delibes focusing on its perspectival and temporal structuring. It is argued that ambiguous perspec- tive is one of the key aspects of its compositional features. This narrative technique is used to mix multiple perspectives in a manner that ends up creating paradoxical representations in depicting the narrative episodes. The article claims that such perspectival configurations, which are to a large extent also based on the temporal dimension, have to be described in terms of networks of local perspectival choices and are best understood via the concept of compression of perspectives.

  • Issue Year: 31/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 143-152
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Spanish