"El curioso impertinente" y "El capitán cautivo", novelas ni sueltas ni pegadizas

• Autores: R. M. Flores
• Localización: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, ISSN-e 0277-6995, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2000, págs. 79-98
• Idioma: inglés
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  • ¿El curioso impertinente¿ and ¿El capitán cautivo¿ have been suspected of not belonging in Don Quixote since the publication of Part I. Sansón Carrasco reports in Part II that some readers of Part I question the thematic appropriateness of the interpolation of ¿El curioso impertinente,¿ and Cide Hamete later on notes that the readers complain about the interpolations of both ¿El curioso impertinente¿ and ¿El capitán cautivo.¿ Even the plot of ¿El curioso impertinente¿ manages to raise the eyebrows of the priest in Part I. Cervantes does not respond directly to any of these charges. It is Cide Hamete who laments about the complaints of his readers, and half-heartedly accepts their criticism. The reasons adduced by Cide Hamete in his defense are not, however, convincing. This study theorizes that the true reasons for the priest¿s criticism of the plot of ¿El curioso impertinente¿ and the readers¿ objections to the interpolations of the two tales are of a socio-cultural nature, and that both Cervantes¿s silence and the excuses adduced by Cide Hamete address this delicate issue circuitously