Moral in Cervantes: from Judgments to Cases in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda

Abstract

AbstractThe treatment of moral issues in Cervantes’s literature is particularly problematic. Taking into account that Persiles is one of the author’s works that has received most critical attention thereon, we propose an approach to the work’s moral vision and configuration based on the analysis of the narrator’s statements and the characters’ voices. By means of this method, we will study the articulation in the novel of the classical framework judgment-exemplum (generality-particularity) in order to reach conclusions with regards to moralsKeywords: Persiles, Moral, Byzantine Romance, Judgment, Case (fact), Narrator.