TY - JOUR
T1 - The Widow's Peak / The Widow Speaks: Carmen's Idle Talk in Miguel Delibes's Cinco horas con Mario
AU - Boucher, Teresa
N1 - Boucher, Teresa. (1996). "The Widow’s Peak /The Widow Speaks: Carmen’s Idle Talk in Miguel Delibes’s Cinco horas con Mario [Five Hours with Mario]". Cincinnati Romance Review, 15,50-56.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - A widow's peak is "a point formed by hair growing down in the middle of a forehead: formerly supposed to foretell early widowhood" ( Webster's 1527). Carmen Sotillo, the protagonist of Miguel Delibes's ninth novel, Cinco horas con Mario , was left a widow with five children when her husband unexpectedly died, presumably of a heart attack, at age 49. Carmen is widowed at an early age. Though in the novel there is no mention of widow's peaks, this widow speaks. I would argue that Carmen's discourse consists of what Heidegger terms "idle talk" (Gerede), the language of inauthenticity.
AB - A widow's peak is "a point formed by hair growing down in the middle of a forehead: formerly supposed to foretell early widowhood" ( Webster's 1527). Carmen Sotillo, the protagonist of Miguel Delibes's ninth novel, Cinco horas con Mario , was left a widow with five children when her husband unexpectedly died, presumably of a heart attack, at age 49. Carmen is widowed at an early age. Though in the novel there is no mention of widow's peaks, this widow speaks. I would argue that Carmen's discourse consists of what Heidegger terms "idle talk" (Gerede), the language of inauthenticity.
M3 - Article
VL - 15
JO - Cincinnati Romance Review
JF - Cincinnati Romance Review
ER -