Autobiography as Burla in the Guzmán de Alfarache

Autobiography as Burla in the Guzmán de Alfarache
Author: Nina Cox Davis
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1991
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780838752210

This study analyzes the discursive and narratological articulations of subjectivity in Guzman de Alfarache -- the first picaresque novel of Spain's Golden Age. Davis's study demonstrates that while the Guzman appears to affirm the relationships of power and ideologies it represents, its composition underscores the contextual and mutable nature of discourses that structure society.

Guzman, de Alfarache

Guzman, de Alfarache
Author: Mateo Alemán
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1924
Genre: Social classes
ISBN:

The main character is an antihero, born in infamy, and emerging into a lower-class world of delinquency and roguish misadventures. He ends up condemned as a prisoner to be a galley-slave, seeking absolution for his past life.

The Rogue

The Rogue
Author: Mateo Alemán
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1967
Genre:
ISBN: