Comparative Literature, April 1st, 2006
LOVE AND THE LAW IN CERVANTES. By Roberto González Echevarría. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005. xx, 292 p.
Roberto González Echevarria asserts that "the organization of a modern state in Spain .. . created a discourse dealing with criminals and common people that writers found compelling" (xiv), suggesting that "It is in the context of this proliferation of laws, state control, and the pursuit, description, classification, and punishment of criminals that the modern novel emerges in the picaresque ... In narrative fiction, plots will no longer be drawn from the literary...
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