Satirical Novel Example
Drafting / / July 04, 2021
He censors the voices of love, introduces the language of the square and the market to literature. Some lines from La Celestina, by Fernando de Rojas, illustrate this subgenre.
"You have said well I am with you, you have pleased me. But still, son, it is necessary for the good attorney to do some work at home. some feigned reasons, some sophisticated acts: coming and going to trial, even if he receives bad words from the judge.
Even for those present who see it; do not say that you earn by letting your salary, and so each one will come to him with his lawsuit and to Celestina with his love.
Sempronio. — Do your will, this will not be the first business you have taken on.
Celestina. — The first, son? Few virgins, thank God, have you seen in this city that they have opened a store to sell of whom I have not been a runner of the first yarn of it. When the girl is born, I make her write in my registry, and this to know how many I get out of the network. What did you think, Sempronio? Was he to keep me out of the wind? Did I inherit another inheritance? Do I have another house or vineyard? Do you know me about another farm of this profession? What do I eat and drink from? What do I wear and wear? In this city born, in it raised, maintaining honor, as everyone knows, well known, am I not? Those who do not know my name and my house consider him a foreigner. "{Cf. Complementary bibliography, N9 47)