La ficción en la imprenta hasta 1525

Abstract

This paper traces an overview of prose fiction in the printing press, from the incunabula period to the year 1525. In some cases, texts, editions, and authors are contemporary, such as Cárcel de amor or Celestina, but in other instances, there are texts that were written or translated time before, and they are renewed in the printing houses to satisfy a new audience. The generic group shows how chivalric fiction dominates in the printing business, both through the emergent chivalry books and the short chivalric narrative, but, if we take into account the number of editions, Celestina stands out in the studied period and, to a lesser extent, Cárcel de amor. Printers and readers would approach these successful genres by reusing woodcuts, printing some works together or binding in one single volume the copies of several of these genres.

Keywords

• printing press
• fiction
• prose
• spanish literature
• evolution
• Middle Ages