Los microrrelatos cómicos y picarescos en la novela barroca: Céspedes y Meneses, Castillo Solórzano y Castelblanco
Abstract
This article examines the presence of comical and/or picaresque micro-structures in spanish baroque novels with aristocratic protagonism –the novelistic equivalent of «courtship» short novels–. Elements such as burlesque poems and farces as interludes, comical or picaresque elements incorporated in the (auto)biography of characters, are embbedded in a continuum of more serious tone, inherited from noble novelistic genres, even if the novel aims to entertain. The frontier between these micro-structures and the main body of the novel may be underlined (prose/verse; change of enunciation) or perceptible only through the generic gap brought about by the micro-strcutures that do not originate from novelistic sub-genres with aristocratic protagonism. The process that unites the micro-structures with the main narrative flow of the novel reveals some interesting information about the baroque mix of genres.
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