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BERDEJA, Juan M.. (Critical)Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda (1617). Valenciana [online]. 2019, vol.12, n.24, pp.119-145.  Epub 30-Dic-2019. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i24.422.

This paper addresses the merging narrative and critical dominants inLos trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda. Grounded in the analysis of certain passages, where an intradiegetic critique of the stories told by one of the main characters (Persiles/Periandro) takes place, this paper aims to demonstrate that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra reflected on his writing and that this work, in particular, holds rigorous ideas about what is known today as ‘reception’, ‘reading process’, ‘critique’.

Therefore, while the Quixote is the work that represents the obsessive reader and the effects of fiction, this paper proposes that the Persiles is the work that represents the obsessive recipient, the recipient that takes a step back from the story and who ends up being, mainly, a critic in a scholastic way.

Palabras llave : Miguel de Cervantes; Persiles; Critique; Narration; Reception.