Who does speak them? The codification of social transformation in Miguel Delibes’ The innocent saints and Andrzej Stasiuk’s Tales of Galicia

Abstract

Miguel Delibes in his novel Los santos inocentes uses the model of narration which oscillates between a traditional epic story and fragmentarity and in this way reflects decomposition of the rural comunity. The novel was publishedin 1981 and forms part of two epochs, Spanish democracy, when the writer finished the book, and regime, because Delibes had strated the composition in the early 60s. Tales of Galicia of Andrzej Stasiuk, published in 1995, it is a collection of independent episodes which make one story. It takes place by the beginning of the politic transformation in Poland. In 1989, after the liquidation of the local State Agricultural Farm, the inhabitants of the Galicia village face the new era of capitalistic caos. In the present work we would like analize the narrative model chosen by Delibes and Stasiuk with the aim of crate the representants of tradicional rural culture.