«Alegoría» en las "Tragedias de amor" de Arze Solórzeno

Abstract

This article tries to analyze the allegory in Arze Solórzeno’s Tragedias de Amor and to put it in relation with its historical and literary influences. The allegory can be defined as a non literal interpretation of a text with a moral or didactic goal. In the «extrapoética» allegory, which is the one that appears in Arze Solorzeno’s novel, the allegoric interpretation appears separated from the rest of the book. One of the elements that is characteristic of the allegories in Tragedias de amor is it lack of relation with the novel and even some incoherencies can be founded. In this way the allegory becomes like a display of advices and erudition that has little relation with the rest of the book and some elements in common with a kind of essays called miscellaneous which were very popular at that time. The allegory in Tragedias de Amor is the only one in the Spanish pastoral novel which is «extrapoética». The influence of classic and contemporaneous writers can be easily found in the allegories. The didactic intention and the kind of topics found in the allegories are very close to the humanistic tradition but, in another way, the light and shadows of the characters and some aspects of the allegories are more close to the Baroque of which influence was growing quickly in that time.