by Miguel Delibes · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423314959
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«Castilla habla» is the essay by Miguel Delibes, published by Destino in paperback (187 pages, in Spanish).
In this work, Delibes brings together thirty-two colloquies from his travels through the villages of Castile and León. He portrays a land marked by drought, rural poverty and official neglect, and lets its people speak, whose popular wisdom points to the region's ancestral ills.
Published in 1986; part of the Áncora y Delfín collection (no. 598) and corresponds to the second edition.
For readers interested in Spanish literature and the literary portrait of Castilian identity and rural Spain.
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.
