Exemplary Novels Example
Drafting / / July 04, 2021
This subgenus is represented by Cervantes; published twelve short stories with the title of exemplary novels, they show moral examples and lessons for readers. Let's read a few lines from Rinconete and Cortadillo.
"No less the obedience and respect that everyone had for Monipodio suspended him, being a barbarian, rustic and heartless man.
She considered what she had read in her memory book and the exercises they all engaged in; Finally, he exaggerated how careless justice there was in that famous city of Seville, because almost in the open lived people so pernicious and so contrary to nature itself, and she proposed in itself to advise her companion not to last long in that life so lost and so bad, so restless and so free and dissolute. But, with all this, taken from her few years and her little experience, he spent a few months with her, in which they happened things that ask for longer writing, and thus, it is left for another occasion to tell his life and miracles, with those of his teacher Monipodio, and other events of those that the infamous academy, that all will be of great consideration and that may serve as an example and warning to those who read. "(Cf. Complementary bibliography, No. 14)