by Miguel Delibes · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423356492
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In 'Parábola del náufrago', Miguel Delibes presents us with a Castilian city where humanity seems to have disappeared. Men are transformed into dogs and shot mercilessly, while others dedicate themselves to adding numbers without meaning. Jacinto San José, an employee under the orders of Don Abdón, questions the functioning of the institution in which he works, which leads him to banishment. This fable, with a clear moral, criticizes autocracy, consumer society, the cult of personality, and gratuitous cruelty, all in a fragmented and labyrinthine work with a neo-baroque language.
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.
