El otro corazón del Derecho

Sólo un cervantista de la erudición de Edward C. Riley podía realizar una síntesis clara, rigurosa y ágil de todo lo que sabemos acerca del clásico absoluto de las letras españolas. El profesor Riley sitúa al Quijote en la biografía del autor y en la sociedad de su época, lo examina a la luz de la teoría y la práctica de la novela del Siglo de Oro y lleva a cabo un análisis literario de singular finura y profundidad.

Anadir uno mas a los multiples estudios sobre don Juan quiza parezca tarea innecesaria o vanidosa. A veces pienso que don Juan, junto a su lista de mujeres seducidas, pudiera presentar otra, mas larga si cabe, de criticos seducidos por sus andanzas. Mas no sobre don Juan solo. Pues las figuras que rondan en torno suyo, singularmente las mujeres y el Comendador, lo determinan de tal modo que sin ellas se volatizaria. Don Juan es un mito y, como tal, un objeto de fantasia o deseo, no ya del autor o del lector, sino de aquellos otros personajes que con el se rozan. Aparente protagonista, su...

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"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...