«Engañar con la verdad» de Castillo Solórzano o la tormenta perfecta del Barroco

Abstract

In Engañar con la verdad, which concludes the first collection Tardes entretenidas (1625), Castillo Solórzano initiates the theatrical rendering of a novella which would become habitual in his prose in the third decade of the 17th century. It also provides a significant model through which one can discover the literary sources most admired by the author in the first stage of his production. After some ecdotic analyses of the constitutio textus, this article focuses on a conventional excerpt: the description of a storm at sea, the ideal locus for the display of style exercises. This sheds light on the interplay of classical influences (Virgil, Lucan) and above all modern (Cervantes, Camerino, Lope de Vega, Góngora), from which the author of the Trapaza draws a very eclectic descriptive scheme which he would use again, with small variations, in La obligación cumplida (Jornadas alegres, 1626) e in Lisardo enamorado (1629).

Keywords

• Castillo Solórzano Alonso de
• description
• storm
• novella