The aristocratic rogue: Towards a variationist hermeneutics of the first Lazarillo (Modern novel, anti-nobility novel? - I -)
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In order to overcome the dialog of deaf people that sometimes caracterizes the understanding of the first Lazarillo, this study proposes a Variacionist hermeneutics. It analyzes the novel distinguishing between the reading programmed by the author and the successive reading that come together with Juan López de Velasco. Attending to the evolution of the meaning of the work from the 1550s to the end of the century, this essay shows how the figure of the squire, a ridiculous example of lower nobility, could later be read as a satirical emblem of aristocracy as a whole. It will then be seen that, far from being secondary, the political issues of war, famine and hunger, together with religious aspects, constitute fundamentals meanings of the first Lazarillo.
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