Literatura, progreso y naturaleza en la obra de Miguel Delibes: una mirada ecofeminista de Parábola del náufrago

This article analyses, from an ecocritical and ecofeminist perspective, the novel Parábola del náufrago (Parable of the Shipwrecked Man) (1969), by Miguel Delibes, in light of his work Un mundo que agoniza(1979): his speech at the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975 on the social and environmental impact of uncontrolled progress and its threat to life. This topic, unusual in the academy, can be placed in the international context of concern for natural deterioration and an incipient ecological awareness that emerged in many areas in this decade of the twentieth century.There are many studies that have echoed the defense of nature in Delibes' work, but in this article we add an ecofeminist perspective to the analysis of his work, based on authors who approach, like the author, in a very critical way the modern notion of progress and its disastrous consequences. This approach not only offers us novel and interesting findings in the texts, but also places its author in the broader context of an international and multidisciplinary environmental ethics.