Exemplary stories

Name: Exemplary stories
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780199555000

317 pages2008Oxford University PressISBN 9780199555000

Translations into English Social life and customs Fiction Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, short stories (single author)

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Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) blend picaresque narrative, comic irony, moral ambiguity, and sheer mirth. A nobleman undergoes a change of identity to prove his love for a mere gypsy girl; two young delinquents discover a guild of criminals which models itself on a religious brotherhood; a jealous old man imprisons his child-bride in a house which conjures up both convent and seraglio; a law graduate goes mad and believes he is made of glass, and most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize on the foibles of human society in a ward full of syphilitics. By combining the extraordinary and the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, the Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, and sheer mirth. This new translation captures the full vigor of Cervantes's wit and make available two rarely printed gems, "The Illustrious Kitchen Maid" and "The Power of Blood." - Publisher.

Publication Details

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Pages: 317
ISBN: 9780199555000

About Unknown Author

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Bilbao, 29 de septiembre de 1864 - Salamanca, 31 de diciembre de 1936) fue un escritor y filósofo español perteneciente a la generación del 98. En su obra cultivó gran variedad de géneros literarios, incluyendo novela, ensayo, teatro y poesía. Rector de la Universidad de Salamanca a lo largo de tres periodos, también fue diputado de las Cortes constituyentes de la Segunda República, de la que se fue distanciando hasta el punto de secundar la sublevación militar que dio inicio a la guerra civil, algo de lo que se arrepintió después públicamente. Unamuno fue uno de los primeros existencialistas, preocupado por la tensión entre el intelecto y la emoción, la fe y la razón. Su principal ensayo filosófico fue *Del sentimiento trágico de la vida* (1912), y entre sus novelas más famosas se encuentran *Niebla* (1914), *Abel Sánchez* (1917), o *La tía Tula* (1921). ---------- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Bilbao, September 29, 1864-Salamanca, December 31, 1936) was a Spanish writer and philosopher belonging to the generation of '98. In his work he cultivated a wide variety of literary genres, including novel, essay, theater and poetry. Rector of the University of Salamanca for three periods, he was also a deputy of the Constituent Courts of the Second Republic, from which he distanced himself to the point of supporting the military uprising that started the civil war, something of which who later publicly repented. Unamuno was one of the first existentialists, concerned with the tension between intellect and emotion, faith and reason. His main philosophical essay was *Del sentimiento trágico de la vida* (1912), and his most famous novels, *Niebla* (1914), *Abel Sánchez* (1917), and *La tía Tula* (1921).