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- Publisher
- Penn State University Press
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- Copyright © 2006 by The Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved.
- ISSN
- 1528-4212
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Abstract
the direction of this study is appropriate. However, in a book to be read by Cervantistas, the chapter is a bit facile. The final chapter moves beyond Cervantes, exploring the formation of the novel after our author. Legal conflicts will become the basis of plot lines, and criminals will become protagonists. In Latin America, Cervantes had a resounding impact on the Latin American novelists Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, who in turn influence the next generation of authors. González Echevarría examines the Quixote's influence in Borges's "Pierre Menard" and the manifestations of the Persiles in Alejo Carpentier's The Harp and the Shadow. This is an informative study on the love/law conflict in Cervantes. The work is wide reaching, providing basic information about Cervantes's texts for non-Hispanists and more detailed observations for Cervantistas, and for this the author should be commended. However, at times the information seems too basic for specialists. Granted, this could be due to the audience for which the work was conceived, those attending a distinguished lecture series. With the majority of Love and Law in Cervantes concentrating on the Quixote, the author leaves room for further investigations of other Cervantine texts. Overall, this is
Journal
Comparative Literature Studies – Penn State University Press
Published: Jun 12, 2006