Analysis of “Five Hours with Mario” by Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes: Author of “Five Hours with Mario”
Early Life and Career
Miguel Delibes Setién (Valladolid, October 17, 1920 – Valladolid, March 12, 2010) was a renowned Spanish novelist. He became a member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, occupying the chair “e” until his death. With a Bachelor of Commerce, he began his career as a columnist and journalist for El Norte de Castilla. He gradually transitioned to focus exclusively on novel writing.
Literary Style and Themes
Delibes was deeply familiar
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VI. External Structure
The novel, “The House of the Spirits,” belongs to the narrative genre and consists of 14 chapters and an epilogue. The point of view is predominantly third-person omniscient. The narrator experiences all events—past, present, and future—and possesses deep psychological insight into the characters’ feelings, experiences, and concerns.
Esteban Trueba occasionally assumes the role of a first-person narrator, writing and narrating the story in his “book of life.” Blanca’s perspective
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The Narrative Text
The narrative is a kind of text that includes real or fictional events that happen to characters in a given time and space.
The elements of the narrative include the structure, the narrator, space and time, the characters, and the narrative itself.
The Structure
The external structure of the narrative is how the text is distributed, i.e., the various component parts.
The internal structure refers to the content and depends on the order in which events occur and the narrative point
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Don Quixote
The Two Sides of the Ingenious Gentleman
Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote revolutionized the novel. Its complex narrative structure, attributed to an Arab chronicler, employs a process of refraction, distancing the author from the story. The multiplication of perspectives blurs the lines between fiction and reality, raising questions of literary truth. This debate affects both the main plot and the interwoven stories. Characters develop lives of their own, evolving as the narrative progresses.
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The journalistic genres:
the journalistic texts serve two functions: to inform and comment; also try to entertain the receiver. “The reporting function is so affected by disseminating objective information regarding events, which
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The Narrator
The narrative genre encompasses all literary works written in prose, primarily recounting fictitious events. The story unfolds through a narrator who presents a fictional world to the ideal reader.
Types of Narrators
- Degree of Knowledge: Absolute knowledge (omniscient) or limited knowledge.
- Degree of Participation:
- Narrator-Protagonist
- Narrator-Character (part of the work but not the main actor, observes from their perspective)
- Narrator-Observer (knows the facts due to presence, but not