‘Hemos ido a redimir al redentor’The Old ‘Paleto’ As Mentor in Miguel Delibes’ El disputado voto del Señor Cayo (1978)
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1475-3820, 1478-3428
Año de publicación: 2022
Título del ejemplar: Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature
Volumen: 99
Número: 4
Páginas: 579-598
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Resumen
El disputado voto del Señor Cayo (1978), a novel by Miguel Delibes, is constructed around a road trip, in which a candidate for a political party in the 1977 Spanish elections and two militants travel to a remote Castilian village in order to gain Mr Cayo’s vote. In this article I provide a reading of the candidate’s journey into ‘deep Spain’ as an example of the ‘Hero’s Journey’ monomyth, and focus on the character of the old ‘paleto’, a naturally ‘wise old man’ whom the politicians try to ‘redeem’, only to find that they are the ones to be redeemed.