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‘El cazador-cazador’ As Green Hunter and Renovator of Poetics in the Work of Miguel Delibes

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radar:r-2d645e092c8dfd41637a93362df2ba2c

Authors

Squires, Jeremy S.‏

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—

Reported language

Spanish

Source type

publication

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2026-11-13T15:28:47.479413+00:00

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2026-11-13T15:28:47.479413+00:00

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Documentary abstract — original language

The novelist Miguel Delibes (1920–2010) was both a passionate small-game hunter, who wrote several books on the subject during his lifetime, and a staunch ecologist. This article gives an analysis which reconciles hunting and biocentrism in his work and further probes the relation between the author's hunting books and his fiction. Beginning with a review of the history and culture of hunting in Spain, it emerges that Delibes applies an extremely strict definition to real hunting (la caza-caza), which he regards as a form of low-impact subsistence or self-provisioning and therefore ethically superior to stock farming. Additionally, the hunter identifies with animality and thereby overcomes the modern sense of apartness from nature. The article notes the stylistic affinities between Delibes’ hunting books and his novels, beginning with Diario de un cazador (1955)—particularly their non-standard literary representations of nature—and suggests that the author renovated his fiction from the 1950s onwards by r...

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DOI

10.1080/14753820.2014.886459

HANDLE

10197/6637

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unknown

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publication

Publishers

Informa UK Limited

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OpenAIRE · Record 1

• Document · https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2014.886459

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