About the author: Teresa Boucher holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Dartmouth College and two master’s degrees, in Spanish and in French, from Middlebury College. She earned the M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. She is currently Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.
2004 0-7734-6477-8 Reference to Miguel Delibes as a novelist of authenticity has become an unexplored cliché of Delibean criticism. Grounded in a Heideggerian approach to (in)authenticity, this is a philosophical reading of three of his texts: Cinco horas con Mario [Five Hours with Mario], Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris [Lady in Red on a Gray Background], and Cartas de amor de un sexagenario voluptuoso [Love Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian].