Exemplary Novels Example
Drafting / / July 04, 2021
This subgenus is represented by Cervantes; he published twelve short stories with the title of exemplary novels, in them moral examples and lessons for the readers are shown. 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 he had read in his memory book and the exercises everyone was doing; Finally, he exaggerated how careless justice was in that famous city of Seville, since almost in the open lived people so pernicious and so contrary to the same nature, and he proposed in himself to advise his 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 his few years and her little experience, he spent a few months with her, in which they were succeeded 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 others 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)