The present article analyzes the Prologue to the First Part of Don Quijote, highlighting those aspects that Cervantes has previously developed in the novel and that operate, in a prelirninary manner, as a mirror on it. In this regard, the Prologue foreshadows elements of unquestionable interest related to the construction, the narrative strategies, the tone and the intention ofthe text.
The character Pedro de Urdemalas enters Cervantes’ fictional universe already weighed down by the baggage of a long and complex series of vicissitudes in the broader cultural “text.” Cervantes adopts the paradigm and, taking advantage of the character's protean nature, (re)writes him with certain deviations —which took shape practically and pragmatically— appropriate to his new context. Seen from this perspective, the (re)writing of Pedro de Urdemalas, transforming the legacy of tradition, is a good example of the intertextual movements which so often cross paths in the Cervantine universe, and which ultimately enrich the shaping of character and the textual space of the comedia.
La vida y hechos de Estebanülo González (1646) se sitúa, por mención expresa, en línea con el Lazarillo, el Guzmán y el Buscón, y se inscribe cronológicamente en el marco de la picaresca secundaria. Uno y otro dato suscitan, respectivamente, recelos y predisposiciones. El presente artículo, a la luz de la poética establecida por el Lazarillo y el Guzmán, y teniendo en cuenta asimismo las enseñanzas cervantinas, destaca la categoría de novela stricto sensu del Estebanülo, la sobrepone en este sentido al libro de Quevedo, y reclama para esta autobiografía un puesto relevante en la serie picaresca.
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