MINI-REUNION 2007 - SACRAMENTO
The Reunion Committee test-flies the
venue for the 2008 reunion.
Photos from Lisa and Marty H.
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Another group of "exemplary" novels is formed by La
Fuerza de la Sangre, La Ilustre Fregona, La Gitanilla, and El
Celoso Extremeño. The first three offer examples of love and adventure
happily resolved, while the last unravels itself tragically. Its plot deals with
the old Felipe Carrizales, who, after traveling widely and becoming rich in
America, decides to marry, taking all the precautions necessary to forestall
being deceived. He weds a very young girl – and isolates her from the
world, by having her live in a house with no windows facing the street. But in
spite of his defensive measures, a bold youth succeeds in penetrating the
fortress of conjugal honour; and one day Carrizales surprises his wife in the
arms of her seducer. Surprisingly enough he pardons the adulterers, recognizing
that he is more to blame than they, and dies of sorrow over the grievous error
he has committed. Cervantes here deviated from literary tradition, which
demanded the death of the adulterers; but he transformed the punishment
inspired, or rather required, by the social ideal of honour
into a criticism of the responsibility of the individual. Rinconete
y Cortadillo, El Casamiento Engañoso, El Licenciado Vidriera,
and El Coloquio de los Perros, four works of art which are concerned more
with the personalities of the characters who figure in them than with the
subject matter, form the final group of these stories. The protagonists are,
respectively, two young vagabonds, Rincón and Cortado, Lieutenant Campuzano, a
student – Tomás Rodaja (who goes mad and believes himself to have been
changed into a witty man of glass, offering Cervantes the opportunity to make
profound observations) and finally two dogs, Cipión and Berganza, whose
wandering existence serves to mirror the most varied aspects of Spanish life. El
colloquio de los perros features even more sardonic observations on the
Spanish society of the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes
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