La inefabilidad de la hache. Los personajes mudos: la Charito de Los santos inocentes de Miguel Delibes y Michał Pietruszka de Kamień na kamieniu Piedra sobre piedra de Wiesław Myśliwski, un análisis comparativo

Abstract

The unspeakability of H. Speech-impaired protagonists: Charito from Miguel Delibes’s The Innocent Saints and Michał Pietruszka from Wiesław Myśliwski’s Stone upon stone — a comparative analysis

The characters who cannot speak constitute a blank in the acoustic image of narration conceived as a significant structure. In Delibes’s novel The Innocent Saints one of the characters compares the letter H with his daughter Charito, disabled girl who cannot speak. In our comparative analysis we focus our attention on this association between a graphic sign and a disabled human being. We would like to collate two supporting characters of the novels which are set in the rural world, that is to say, Charito from Miguel Delibes’s The Innocent Saints and Michał Pietruszka from Wiesław Myśliwski’s Stone upon stone. The comparison is aimed to highlight the function of these who are condemned to the others’ word within the narrated universe.