Resumen de Resistance in a World of Documents: Wherein Feliciana de la Voz Lows for Justice in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda
Understood in both of its senses as reason and as language, logos is supposed to provide a way to live out the dizzying turns of fortune by maintaining a core sense of self-a self that is, in turn, very much grounded on the ability to reason through language. [...]in The Consolation of Philosophy, man, the philosopher, resists not only the injustices of the world but also the (false) comforts and pleasures of non-philosophical poetry, which siren-like would have made him forget his true purpose. Dans ces plaintes, la parole, même encadrée par une technique réglée comme celle de l'art de l'éloquence, essaie de surmonter une difficulté centrale sans pour autant la forclore-la dénier parfois, mais jamais la forclore: la plainte s'amorce en-deçà du langage. Several critics have seen in Feliciana de la Voz a kaleidoscope of the plight of feminine characters in the previous two books of Persites j/ Sigismunda as well as a herald of the plucky heroines that populate books three and four.3 Her story describes the adventures and trials of a noble but not superlatively rich woman who goes against her fathers wishes and chooses for herself a husband. The affair is resolved after a tense stand-off once all characters-father, brother, Feliciana and her pilgrim protectors, her chosen husband and baby-find themselves miraculously at the monastery of Guadalupe and a friend of Don Tenorio talks sense into him.4 Her story not only recapitulates key themes from the first two books of the novel but the written lyrics that Feliciana offers to Auristela at the end of chapter five also mark the midway point of the narrative, thus signalling the importance of lyric to the novel.
