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- Title
El engaño del sentido ocular en la Novela del celoso extremeño: Pigmalión y Narciso.
- Authors
HIDALGO, JOSÉ MANUEL
- Abstract
Miguel de Cervantes presents in his novel of extreme jealousy the unhappy amorous relationship of the old Felipo Carrizales with the young Leonora. The contempt that Carrizales feels for women after his youth stage and the molding process of Leonora recall the myth of Pygmalion. The novel employs this myth to warn about the inability of the visual sense as a way to uncover the poetic example of the novel and through it, theorize about the fallacy that the sensible world within a literary piece contains. The inability of Carrizales to discern the truth in the feigned adultery of Leonora with Loaysa warns the reader about the inability of the visual sense to discern the reality of what one reads. At the same time, the novel evokes the myth of Narcissus through the transformation of Carrizales into a marble statue when he finds Leonora and Loaysa in the owner's bedroom, and after, with the repeated face-to-face meetings between Carrizales and Leonora. The inclusion of the legend of Narcissus backs up the proposition that the myth of Pygmalion brings up regarding the deception of the visual sense. Furthermore, the novel of extreme jealousy shows an example that warns the reader about the careful interpretation of the emotional world, and teaches to not trust the visual sense at the time of uncovering the poetic example.
- Subjects
EL celoso extremeno (Short story); CERVANTES Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616; JEALOUSY in literature; MYTH in literature; VISUAL perception in literature; PYGMALION (Greek mythology); NARCISSUS (Greek mythology); ADULTERY in literature; LITERATURE &; myth
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2012, Vol 46, Issue 3, p505
- ISSN
0034-818X
- Publication type
Short Story Review
- DOI
10.1353/rvs.2012.0067