Durán Giménez-Rico, Isabel2025-01-112025-01-112022Durán Giménez-Rico, Isabel. «‘Hemos ido a redimir al redentor’ : The Old ‘Paleto’ As Mentor in Miguel Delibes’ “El disputado voto del Señor Cayo” (1978)». Bulletin of Spanish Studies : Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal and Latin America, vol. 99, n.º 4, Ageing Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Spanish Literature, 2022, pp. 579-98, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2022.2096283.1475-382010.1080/14753820.2022.2096283https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113834ABSTRACT: "El disputado voto del Señor Cayo" (1978), a novel by Miguel Delibes, is constructed around a road trip, in which a candidate for a political party in the 1977 Spanish elections and two militants travel to a remote Castilian village in order to gain Mr Cayo’s vote. In this article I provide a reading of the candidate’s journey into ‘deep Spain’ as an example of the ‘Hero’s Journey’ monomyth, and focus on the character of the old ‘paleto’, a naturally ‘wise old man’ whom the politicians try to ‘redeem’, only to find that they are the ones to be redeemed.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal article1478-3428https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14753820.2022.2096283https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2022.2096283https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cbhs20https://www.tandfonline.com/open access821.134.2Delibes, Miguel7dis.07"El disputado voto del Señor Cayo"Miguel DelibesPolitical fictionSpanish Transition literatureLiteratura española e hispanoamericanaProsaEscritores6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias