by Miguel Delibes · Genérico · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475304847
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«Cinco horas con Mario» is the novel by Miguel Delibes published in hardback, with 296 pages, in Spanish.
Carmen has just been widowed and, during the wake, spends five hours talking to the corpse of her husband Mario. Her monologue mixes memories, reproaches and marital concerns and reflects the political and social tensions of 1950s Spain.
First volume of the collection «Grandes autores españoles del siglo XX»; 1984 edition (Barcelona). The novel was originally published in 1966.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction and for those who want to discover Miguel Delibes; it is a representative work of social realism.
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.
