- Don Quixote -
Recalling read Quixote , we find a chapter that understanding of many scholars, is key to understanding the intent of the work of Cervantes, it would be nothing less than chapter 49.
Those who have read the book will recall that back to the village, when the poor gentleman was caged happens interesting conversation between Don Quixote and the canon of novels of chivalry. With a lucid and artistic discourse Canon tries to convince the gentleman of falsity containing the romances, the pair that recommends reading other novels that celebrate the brave deeds of men in history.
... And if you do, taken from his natural inclination, trying to read books of achievements and of chivalry, read the Sacred Scripture that of the Judges, there you will find great truths and facts as true and brave. A Viriato had Lusitania, a Caesar, Rome, a Hannibal, Carthage, an Alexander, Greece; a Count Fernan González, Castilla, a Cid, Valencia, a Gonzalo Fernandez, Andalusia, a Diego Garcia de Paredes, Estremadura, a Garci Perez de Vargas, Jerez, a Garcilaso, Toledo, a Don Manuel de Leon, Seville, whose lesson of their valiant deeds can entertain, teach, delight and admire the highest wits to read them ... Don Quijote
responds to the canon with a speech defending the authenticity of fictional heroes like Amadis or Tristan, while the equated with historical, like Don Juan de Merlo or Suero de Quinones.
The canon was amazed to hear that Don Quixote was mixed truths and lies, and watch the news I had all those things relates and the facts of his errant knightAt this point we must pay special attention to the character of the canon, which appears as a "discrete opinionated" in literary matters, and most likely be used by Cervantes to put in your mouth the views I had of this genre. M. Cervantes himself Riquer even states in his study of Quijote, in the speech delivered by Canon can hear the words of Cervantes noting the key point in the intention of his work. Cervantes heroic attempt to lift the English tradition, true to history and reality to a greater or lesser extent, compared to the wild and exotic novels of knights-errant. And is that Cervantes, a former and distinguished soldier in his youth, he throws his contemporaries a message which advises learning the examples of heroism of the true gentlemen in front of the exploits of great heroes.
Don Quixote speaks on the books of chivalry. Edic. 1765, Madrid. - Garcilaso -
One of the characters previously mentioned in the discourse of the canon and as an example of real gentleman in front of the fabulous was to Garcilaso.
... "a Garcilaso, Toledo" ...Now let's unravel who was this character:
The Garcilaso mentioned that the canon should not be confused with the famous poet Toledo: Garcilaso de la Vega. And in the case that concerns us speak of a hero of the War Garcilaso de Granada and therefore a generation before the poet.
This character Garcilaso is active in many romances that follow the trails of old romances border, despite its creation rather late, probably second half of the XVI. The romance of Garcilaso de la Vega has the duel in which a young gentleman named Garcilaso faces a huge Muslim who has sullied the legend the wake of "Ave Maria"
Aquest dog, with mockery, - in line Horse
The Holy Hail Mary - led by scorn.
In this romance published in the second half of the sixteenth century are mixed stories of two characters named the same name but differ in time: on the one hand we have the feat and Gonzalo Ruiz Garcilaso de la Vega at the Battle of Salado (1340 ) and another episode of Garcilaso knight who slew in single combat a major Moor under the reign of Henry IV.
Romance ends with the recognition of Garcilaso young gentleman who, after killing the Moors who had underestimated just getting it wrong "- the name of the Vega, to wage the battle in this field.
Garcilaso de la Vega - since there has been entitled, because the plain
did - that pagan field.
The History of the civil wars of Granada author: Ginés Perez de Hita, said the king after recognizing the name to Garcilaso sent in their weapons to the words "Ave Maria" "for good reason aversela removed "
Finally, we should talk about the historical Garcilaso who fought in the War Granada and the father of the famous poet Toledo, actually called Pedro Suarez de Figueroa changed its name to Garcilaso de la Vega, but not starred in any heroic episode, if that excelled in English diplomacy, serving as ambassador to Rome for the Kings Catholic.
Coat of Arms Vega. For more - The Ballads -
Let us go back to Chapter 49 of the first part of Don Quixote. We recall here the intention that Cervantes sought to put into the mouth of the canon a speech on the novels of chivalry: Waterfront literary knight, Cervantes opposed the real gentleman.
But at this point one might ask a question: what is the key element that makes our protagonist does not know how to distinguish the real from the fictitious novels?. However, the fundamental question is found in the Castilian own vocabulary, and at that time did not exist in our language a term to differentiate fiction from history books, because the term novel in the sense there was no long narrative.
This failure would come back in time, the term "roman" in French was used to describe these novels, Castilla had served to describe a type of oral tradition of narrative poetry which described episodes more or less fantastic epic "romance."
This led to our language to call some of the great romances as "stories" or "chronic", as it did with biographies of real people. Thus we find the History invincible knight Don Olivante Laura or Lepolemo Chronicle, shell them, and History of Emperor Charles V or Chronicle of the Great Captain , narrating actual events. Ultimately Cervantes
denounce here, and wise, some naive or something deranged minds could confuse certain fictional epic event, with other real. Not long after, with the publication of Exemplary Novels, the writer himself will be the first to say "... I am the first I have novels in English, that the many novels that go print it , are all translated from foreign languages, and these are my own, not imitated and stolen " ie Cervantes is the first novel in Castilian attending the modern sense of the word.
Cover 1 st ed. of the Exemplary Novels ------------------------------ Information from:
- To read Cervantes, edit the Cliff 2003, Martín de Riquer.
- The Moors and Christians in the Peru, Fondo Editorial, 2005, Milena Caceres Valderrama
To read the romance of history Garcilaso in the civil wars of Granada :
www.cervantesvirtual.com , pp. 620-624
To learn more about border romances:
www.parnaseo.uv.es
Curiosity: The ethnographer Castilian
Joaquin Diaz rescues the romance of Garcilaso de la Vega in his musical cd "Romance de la Reina Isabel"
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