In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and
Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an
abstraction largely idealized in his earlier writing. Traditional
critics have perpetuated this disembodied ideal woman: "Every Man,"
claimed the translators of the 1706 Don Quixote, has "some darling
Dulcinea of his Thoughts." As Diana de Armas Wilson shows, however,
Cervantes himself envisioned the radical embodiment of "Dulcinea"
in the later Persiles, a pan-European Renaissance allegory. Wilson
illuminates Cervantes's strategic use of the ancient genre of Greek
romance to contest various chivalric fictions about women, love,
and marriage--fictions collapsing under the constraints of an
emerging bourgeois culture. Taking as her subject Cervantes's
erotic imperative--to leave behind "barbaric" notions of love in
quest of a new conceptual space--Wilson demonstrates how the heroes
of the Persiles, unlike Don Quixote, learn to cross the borders of
difference. Their journey toward marriage is illustrated by
thirteen inset "exemplary novels," perhaps the most exploratory of
Cervantes's writings. Allegories of Love not only examines the
fundamental importance of sexual and cultural difference in
Cervantes's last romance, but also reveals the historical
conditions of representation itself during the late
Renaissance.
Originally published in 1991.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
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