Mujer y muerte en la novela de Miguel Delibes

Résumé

Four are the thematic constants commonly accepted in the work of Miguel Delibes (1920-2010): child - hood, nature, neighbor and death. The first three are common resources that serve the author to guide a story, but it is the obsessive idea of death that catalyzes the plot of almost all of his novels. And it is precisely this recurrence that is analyzed in this article, with the particularity that the study focuses exclusively on the deaths of female characters. To do this, we start from an exhaustive analysis of the discourse to determine the number of women who lose their lives as well as all those surrounding cir - cumstances, such as the role of the deceased, their age or, finally, the cause of death. The subsequent qualitative analysis brings to light the details and relevance of female death in Delibes’s novel:Are they dispensable deaths or, on the contrary, is the death of women decisive for understanding his work?