Campus Units
World Languages and Cultures
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
5-2015
Journal or Book Title
The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature
Volume
Chapter 6
First Page
96
Last Page
112
Abstract
In Part 2 of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605), the knight and his squire happen across a prisoner chain gang headed to the royal galleys to serve out their sentences. In a rather famous exchange, Gines de Pasamonte, one of the condemned, informs Don Quixote that he is writing his own autobiography titled La vida de Gines de Pasamonte (The life of Gines de Pasamonte) that, when finished, will be so good and entertaining that it will overshadow Lazarillo de Tormes and all other works of that sort: Es tan bueno {...} que mal ano para Lazarillo de Tormes y para todos cuantos de aquel genero se han escrito o escribieren' (It's so good [...] that it's going to be bad new sfor Lazarillo de Tormes and for all the others of that genre that have been, or will be, written).
Copyright Owner
Cambridge University Press
Copyright Date
2015
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Gasta, Chad M., "Cervantes and the Picaresque: A Question of Compatibility." (2015). World Languages and Cultures Publications. 156.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs/156
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Comments
This book chapter is published as Cervantes and the Picaresque: A Question of Compatibility.” The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque. Ed. J. A. G. Ardila. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. Chapter 6; 96-112. Posted with permission.