La muerte en las biografías escolares finiseculares y de principios de siglo de Barrantes Moreno, Díaz Pérez y Morán Márquez

Abstract

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.