Apuntes sobre la noción de verosimilitud en el Quijote

Abstract

This article seeks to explore the notion of verisimilitude in Don Quixote. Verisimilitude, a central notion in Aristotelean poetics and veritable war horse of those that defended good fiction against chivalric romance, is nevertheless a notion that is beguilingly evident, as much in Aristotle’s text as in those of his commentators. Far from theoritical and scholarly polemics, the Cervantine text takes a new look at the question on different levels in order to take a definite stance as regards a certain idea of verisimilitude, an ida on which his poetic enterprise bases itself to a considerable degree.

Keywords

• verisimilitude
• poetics
• fiction
• Cervantes Miguel de