Delibes-Umbral Intimate correspondence
Seven feet wide and three feet deep measures the table where
Miguel Delibes wrote by hand
.
It is made of robust wood, perhaps oak, and has burns from the cigarettes that he himself rolled with cut tobacco;
there are also ink stains.
It is somewhat larger than that of Sedano (Burgos), where he spent summers and advanced books.
In that area he went fishing, hunting, cycling and walking, along trails or across fields.
He also swam;
he threw himself into his little pool holding his nose.
The wide table, the one in Valladolid, where he wrote neatly, you can see in the National Library, in an exhibition that opens today (until November 15) on his life and work.
The show is
austere and sober, like the tables
, like him, like his writing.
Manuscripts, photos, congratulations, awards, first editions, posters and the voices Lola Herrera and José Sacristán resounding in the rooms (the two actors starred in the theatrical adaptations of
Cinco horas con Mario 'and' Las guerras de Nuestro Ancesados'
), along with Delibes himself talking to Juan Diego during a break from filming
Los santos inocentes
...
"My father's books are still being republished and read in schools. This is the icing on the cake. He would have liked it," said Elisa Delibes de Castro, president of the Miguel Delibes Foundation, yesterday at the presentation of a sample that was postponed for six months. by the happy virus.
It's called
Delibes
, it's that simple, why else?
"He does not need an adjective," said the commissioner, Jesús Marchamalo, journalist, writer and who signs the book
Delibes en bicicleta
(Nordic).
It is not missing, it should not be missing, the painting of his wife, Ángeles de Castro, who was always in the room of his house in Valladolid.
A portrait of John Ulbricht in which she poses
elegantly, in a red dress, necklace and white gloves.
Delibes titled
Lady in red on a gray background
the book in which he remembered her when the tear by her death healed (somewhat) and that is the monologue that Sacristán represents in Madrid these days.
You can also see the
Hermes Baby
typewriter
that Ángeles gave her when they got married.
"She was crucial, she was the one who taught him to read. He
had read Salgari, Dumas and Dostoevsky,
and by the hand of Ángeles he read Chekhov, Pushkin, Cervantes, Gómez de la Serna," said Jesús Marchamalo.
"They were married on April 23."
Book's day.
The National Library directed by Ana de Santos is dedicated to three rooms, along which Miguel Delibes -
third of eight siblings (he had seven children)
- appears in the
North
workshops
, photographed by Alberto Schommer and together with Josep Pla, Josep Vergés (editor of Destino), sitting on his rocking chair and in slippers reading Iris Murdoch, next to Rosa Chacel and Rafael Alberti in El Escorial, with Francisco Umbral and Manu Leguineche in Cuéllar (Segovia), with Esther Tusquets, Camilo José Cela , José Hierro, Torrente Ballester, Buero Vallejo, Gironella ... And on the deck of a ship, on the occasion
of the Formentor International Novel Colloquium
in 1959 by Italo Calvino, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Carmen Martín Gaite, Mercedes Salisachs, Juan Goytisolo and others.
"In my novels and stories about Castile, the only thing I want to do is
call things by their names
and know the names of things," he confessed to César Alonso de los Ríos in
I am a man of fidelity.
Conversations with Miguel Delibes
, who has just recovered La Esfera de los Libros, so timely, so necessary.
Like
Five hours with Miguel Delibes
(Fórcola), also reissued and where he states that
El Camino
wrote it "in 21 days, one per chapter, after thinking about it, naturally".
Castilla always in the background.
He can be seen walking around in his everlasting
brown suede jacket,
wearing a beret or visor;
with cananas and shotgun, with the fishing rod.
And recording the peasants so that words, turns,
phrases from the provinces that were beginning to become uninhabited
were not lost
in the 1950s
.
There are also, among the pages of the first editions of his books, his endearing characters, from Daniel
el Mochuelo
(
The way
), Cipriano Salcedo (
The heretic
), Menchu (
Five hours with Mario
), Lorenzo (
Diary of a hunter
, among others),
El Nini
(
The rats
) ...
And the manuscript of the speech of the Cervantes Prize,
by hand, with deletions (few)
that the Delibes Foundation has bequeathed to the funds of the National Library.
Jesús Marchamalo commented that Delibes was so shy that his son Miguel carried that day (April 23, 1994) a copy of the speech in case his father got emotional.
In everything it was simple and great, humble and amazing
.
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