«Mucho dejé de escribir, que te escribo»: sobre la filosofía velada de Guzmán de Alfarache

Criticón

关键词: allegory;    initiation;    Machiavellism;    prudence;    Silenus;    Alemán Mateo;   

DOI  :  10.4000/criticon.15271

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The novel, Guzmán de Alfarache was conceived as a Silenus fable that the subtle reader has to open in order to unravel its significance. Thus in the same way that a knight had to turn the wooden panel of a painting around in the final chapter (II, 3, 9), the said reader can give an altogether different meaning to the reading intended for one less subtle. From such an angle, even if we accept that the Sevillian’s itinerary is literally a process of degradation, from an allegorical perspective it takes the form of an initiation to the art of “prudence”: that demanded by the “traps” that pave the path of “human life”, and that which is depicted as much in the first of the engravings as in the two parts that make up the pseudoautobiography. While explicitly defending the metaphorical urbanity of the watch-tower, Alemán dignifies implicitly wit, suspicion, awareness, dissimulation and simulation, uniting them in a complex pharmacopeia of Evil, but one that ultimately benefits Good.

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