Cervantes autobiography of a fleas
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THE EXEMPLARY NOVELS
OF
CERVANTES.
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BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY.
THE
EXEMPLARY NOVELS
OF
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA.
TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH
BY
WALTER K. KELLY.
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PREFACE.
It seems to be generally admitted that in rendering the title of a book from one language into another, the form of the original should be retained, even at the cost of some deviation from ordinary usage. Cicero's work De Officiis is never spoken of as a treatise on Moral Duties, but as Cicero's Offices. Upon the same principle we have not entitled the following collection of tales, Instructive or Moral; though it is in this sense that the author applied to them the epithet exemplares, as he states distinctly in his preface. The Spanish word exemplo, from the time of the archpriest of Hita and Don Juan Manuel, has had the meaning of instruction, or instructive story.
The "Novelas Exemplares" were first published in , three years before the death of Cervantes. They are all original, and have the air of being drawn from his personal experience and observation. Ticknor, in his &
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Preferred Citation: Gilman, Stephen. The Novel According to Cervantes. Berkeley: University of California Press, c ://ftr/
The Novel According to CervantesStephen GilmanUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESSBerkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford© The Regents of the University of California |
Preferred Citation: Gilman, Stephen. The Novel According to Cervantes. Berkeley: University of California Press, c ://ftr/
Foreword
On November 9, , shortly before he died, Stephen Gilman informed Doris Kretschmer of the University of California Press that he was about to send her the manuscript of his just-completed study of the Cervantine tradition in the novel. He sent a copy of the letter to me—not only because I had been urging him to send the manuscript to the Press, but because he knew that his completing the book was as much a triumph for me as for its author.
We had met during Winter quarter at the Ohio State University, where we were both teaching. Invited to participate in a colloquium on "realism," we both made presentations at once setting forth our profound disagreement with the descriptive and impersonal formalism then regnant in literary criticism and also proclaiming the need to historicize. The modes of historicism we opted for of course differed—Gilman'
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The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes/Dialogue between General and Berganze
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