Miguel Delibes : an annotated critical bibliography /

The annotations in this classed bibliography of works by and about the postwar Spanish novelist Delibes, sandwiched between a brief survey of Delibes's life and work and a cursory, unspecific overview of scholarly criticism, are lengthy, often awkward, and in need of further proofreading, but they may prove useful to hurried researchers. Meyers assigns a code to each entry, which he uses in the indexes, but not in most cross-references. He offers no indication of the work's scope, sources, or cutoff date, stating in the preface, "the aim of this dissertation [sic] is to . . . provid[e] an exhaustive survey of the bibliographic material generated by Miguel Delibes's writings," an ambition that is not met. Silently omitted are Delibes's journalism (published largely in El Norte de Castilla before his success as a novelist) and essays published in reviews, some of which were brought together in travel and other nonfiction books. Of monographic studies of Delibes, the major omission is Gudrun Wogatzke-Luckow's Figuren und Figurenkonstellationen im erz"ahlerischen Werk von Miguel Delibes (Geneva, 1991), whose selective bibliography cites some two dozen articles or reviews that Meyers overlooks. He includes indexes of critics and of topics that omit authors with whom Delibes is compared. Especially for reception studies, and given the state of Spanish indexing for the period, Meyers is most useful for his index of reviews of Delibes's novels. This bibliography would have been better as a publication on the Web. Recommended, though barely, for collections supporting graduate research in contemporary Peninsular literature. J. Larson; Yale University