Vicente Espinel y el modelo picaresco: la Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón o las ambigüedades de una figura ejemplar
This study is a detailed analysis of the first episode narrated in Vicente Espinel’s famous novel: Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón (1618). Marcos shows himself conventionnally as an old and rather cynical rogue, but when he becomes the servant of a young couple, he suddenly appears as an example...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Presses universitaires du Mirail
2010-11-01
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| Series: | Criticón |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/criticon/15336 |
| Summary: | This study is a detailed analysis of the first episode narrated in Vicente Espinel’s famous novel: Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón (1618). Marcos shows himself conventionnally as an old and rather cynical rogue, but when he becomes the servant of a young couple, he suddenly appears as an example of the perfect gentleman. Usually considered as a smoother version of the picaresque genre, Espinel’s writing engenders a very ambivalent and modern tension between morality and desire, deeply reinventing its literary model. The frustrated love affair between a married woman and a young barber is a strategy to dissimulate rich and not so innocent inclination among characters able to prevent evil and to introduce debate in moral issues. |
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| ISSN: | 0247-381X |