Educational novels. In 2 books

"Edifying novels" are already the third book (after "Don Quixote" and "Comedies and Intermedies") Miguel de Cervantes Savedra (1547-1616), published in the series "Literary Monuments". And this is no coincidence, because the shadow of "Don Quixote", the greatest novel in the history of world literature, turned out to be undeservedly obscured by other beautiful works of an outstanding Spaniard.
A vault of twelve instructive short stories, which saw the light in 1613, at the time when work on the adventures of the cunning Idalgo was nearing completion, caused stormy delight among his contemporaries: in their eyes, these mini -faces surpassed the Cretan labyrinth with a cunning - the creation Daedalus, and by plot turns they could sometimes be equal to the "fictions of the nosed poet" Ovid.
Together with the Tabor of the Gypsies, the reader goes into wanderings in the vast expanses of magnificent Andalusia, in a campaign with English pirates gets involved in bloody sea alterations, opens up for himself an outlandish fraternity of thieves, living like a knightly order - according to the laws of honor and dignity, is a witness of disgusting The atrocities of the Berberian pirates, gets acquainted with the eccentric Salamank student, who imagines himself tailored from glass and therefore autumn wisdom, for in the glass the soul works faster and better than in the body, earthy and hot. "
In the crowning book "Novel about the conversation of dogs", the author turns to an unusual animal science fiction for him in the spirit of Apuley and Lucian and takes a couple of wonderful representatives of the pushege tribe to the stage: four-legged people have a conversation in the manner of philosophers-kits. But whether all this was actually or only fired a lieutenant who had naughty on a bunk of a Wellyadolid hospital (according to the remark of one of the tailed sages, "all that we experienced and everything that we worry is a dream ”) remains a mystery.
Cervantes anticipated many discoveries of the upcoming times, up to the writer"s techniques of the 20th century and the concepts of Sigmund Freud, whose "interpretation of dreams" for certain from the conversation of the Cervantes dogs, bold innovations and literary experiments.
Brightly represented in the "edifying novels" and a picture of the everyday life of Spain of the Border of the XVI-XVII centuries: contractions on sonorous swords, wandering of rogues on dusty Castile roads, dizzying festivities, noisy celebrations in magnificent mansions and dull huts of the poor, under the sets of churches And on the stage of corrals. A truly life -affirming spirit is imbued with the story: unbridled dances, which grabbed the souls and penetrating poetry uncontrollably entail a fascinated eyewitness of writing dreams.
The subtle irony, which is famous for Cervantes, is combined in the short stories tagged with a satire, the evil and cruel draws of the characters turn out as a result with a good joke, or even a happy wedding.
To open the veil over what he is the true portrait of the creator of the “edifying short stories”, to plunge into the world of a stunning monument of literature, to expose the horizons hidden in it and thorough comments.
The reader learns that it was the "novels" of Cervantes that was destined to become works from which the European story grew up, as from the Don Quixote - a European novel, he learns, in particular, that he did not escape the influence of the Spanish genius and A.S. Pushkin (not without reason, in order to read the “edifying short stories” in the original, the poet took the Spanish shortly before his death), indirect evidence of which was his famous cycle of “Belkin’s Tale”, which outlines the features of the language of Russian narrative prose.
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