A morte nas biografías escolares de finais e principios de século de Vicente Barrantes Moreno, Nicolás Díaz y Pérez e Ángeles Morán Márquez

Abstract

A morte converteuse para a literatura infantil e xuvenil na gran ausente, a omitida ou a enmascarada. Atopar referencias bibliográficas que aborden o tema con total naturalidade ou que simplemente a mencionen é francamente difícil. Este silencio literario non sempre se mostrou de forma tan acusada; de feito, existen referentes na nosa historia como El Plutarco extremeño, Nombres claros de Extremadura ou El Plutarco de los niños que apostaron por temas tan reais como controvertidos e nos cales a descrición do falecemento dos seus personaxes supoñía un elemento frecuente da narración. Neste artigo darase conta das características comúns destas tres obras, a repercusión no lector infantil e o procedemento habitual na manifestación que fan da morte.

In children’s literature, death has become the major omission, the missing topic or the masked one, so it is utterly hard to find references simply mentioning this topic or addressing it in a natural way. This literary silence has not always been so pronounced; in fact, there are references in our history such as El Plutarco extremeño, Nombres claros de Extremadura or El Plutarco de los niños that include topics not only real but also controversial, and where depicting the death of their characters in a natural was a recurring element in the stories. In this article, we will be talking about the common characteristics of these three novels and their impact on children, as well as the standard procedure in the manifestation of death in works of nineteenth and twentieth centuries.