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- Title
El mundo lazarillesco de los procesos de pesquisas: muestras del archivo catedralicio de Oviedo.
- Authors
COLAHAN, CLARK
- Abstract
Much recent criticism of the Lazarillo has focused on the work's use of an irony that obliges readers to evaluate for themselves the reliability of the narrator. One class of writing that has been suggested as a possible model in this regard are the accounts written by clergymen in their own defense when under investigation. Critics had commented on the abundance of such documents in the cathedral archives at Oviedo. A sampling of that wealth of firstperson narratives finds no parallels to the implied letter calling for Lazarillo to justify his reported misbehavior, but the strategies of concealment and selfjustification, as well as the specific offenses that are presented in the novel, are both practically ubiquitous and may have contributed to the tone of the picaresque genre.
- Subjects
OVIEDO (Spain); LA vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades (Book); IRONY; FIRST person narrative; PICARESQUE literature; CHURCH archives; HISTORY
- Publication
RILCE. Revista de Filología Hispánica, 2011, Vol 27, Issue 2, p321
- ISSN
0213-2370
- Publication type
Literary Criticism