Educational novels. Cervantes Miguel de

“Indian short novels” are already the third book (after Don Quixote and Comedies and Intermedies) by Miguel de Cervantes Savedra (1547-1616), published in the series “Literary Monuments”.And this is no coincidence, because the shadow of “Don Quixote”, the greatest novel in the history of world literature, turned out to be undeservedly obscured by other beautiful works of an outstanding Spaniard.A vault of twelve instructive short stories that saw the light in 1613., at the time when work on the adventures of the cunning Idalgo was nearing completion, caused a violent delight among his contemporaries: in their eyes, these mini-faces surpassed the Cretan Labyrinth with a cunning-the creation of a horseman grandfather, and the plot twists could sometimes be equal to the “fictions of the nosed poet” of Ovidia.Together with the Tabor of the gypsies, the reader goes into wanderings in the vast expanses of magnificent Andalusia, in a campaign with English pirates gets involved in bloody sea alterations, discovers for himself an outlandish fraternity of thieves, living like a knightly order - according to the laws of honor and dignity, is a witness to the disgusting atrocities of the Berberian pirates, He meets the eccentric Salamank student, who imagines himself cut from glass and therefore in autumn wisdom, for in the glass “the soul works faster and better than in the body, earthy and hot”.In the crowning book “The Novel about the Conversation of Dogs”, the author turns to an unusual animal science fiction for him in the spirit of Apuley and Lucian and leads a couple of wonderful representatives of the Peshea tribe to the stage: four-legged people have a conversation in the manner of philosopher-kits.But whether all this was actually or only hesed the lieutenant, who had naughty on the bunk of the Wellyadolid hospital (according to the remark of one of the tailed sages, “all that we have experienced and everything that we worry is a dream”), remains a mystery..Cervantes anticipated many discoveries of upcoming times, up to the writer's techniques of the 20th century and the concepts of Sigmund Freud, whose “interpretation of dreams” for certain from the conversation of the Cervantes dogs,.The picture of the ordinary life of Spain of the Rubezh of the XVI -XVII centuries is brightly represented in the “edifying novels”: contractions on sonorous swords, wanderings of rogue on dusty Castile roads, dizzying festivities, noisy celebrations in lush mansions and dull huts of the poor, under the arches of the churches and on the stages of corrals.A truly life -affirming spirit is imbued with the story: unrestrained dances that grabbing the soul of music and penetrating poetry irresponsibly entail a fascinated eyewitness of writer's dreams.The subtle irony, which is famous for Cervantes, is combined in the novels tagged satira, evil and cruel draws of characters turn out as a result with a good joke, and even a happy wedding.Open the veil over what it is the true portrait of the creator of the “edifying short stories”, plunge into the world of a stunning monument of literature, and the articles hidden in it will help articles and thorough comments.The reader shakes that it was the “novels” of Cervantes that was destined to become works from which the European story grew up, as from Don Quixote - a European romance, he shakes, in particular, that he did not escape the influence of the Spanish genius and a.WITH.Pushkin (not without reason, in order to read the “edifying short stories” in the original, the poet took the Spanish shortly before his death), an indirect evidence of which was his famous cycle “Belkin’s Tales”, which outlined the features of the language of Russian narrative prose.The translation of "instructive short stories" is verified by the latest critical publications.Recommended to the widest circle of readers.