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T IS A CRITICAL COMMONPLACE that Lazarillo de Tormesâ s appearance in 1554 engendered a literary tradition, usually referred to as the âpicaresqueâ (be that the picaresque novel, genre, mode, frame, style, or strain), that played a dominant role in Hispanic letters during Spainâs Renaissance (here, chiefly designating the sixteenth century) and the âhistorical baroque periodâ (mainly the late sixteenth and entire seventeenth centuries).1 However, the picaresque has not remained restricted to the Peninsula during the peak of its empire. Rather, we shall find that the picaresque novelâspecifically one written in a decidedly baroque fashionâhas resurfaced as recently as 1969 in the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenasâs El mundo alucinante (Hallucinations).2 In this transtemporal, trans-Atlantic investigation, I first demonstrate that the baroque picaresque is a Hispanic literary constant or, at a minimum, that it cyclically reappears. I examine how El mundo alucinante engages in dialogues with two canonical baroque picaresque novels of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain: Mateo Alemánnâs Guzmán de Alfarache (1599/1604) and Francisco de Quevedoâs El buscón (The Scavenger, 1626). I also briefly examine how Arenas employed his primary historical source, Fray Servandoâs Memorias (The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier). Ultimately, I attempt to explain why
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2005
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