Salas Barbadillo y el quehacer grotesco: «Las líneas de este pincel y los renglones de esta pluma» en El curioso y sabio Alejandro, juez y fiscal de vidas ajenas (1634)
Chapter
Publication Date:
2020
abstract:
This study analyzes the writing of El curioso y sabio Alejandro, juez y fiscal de
vidas ajenas (1634), by Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, focusing on the use of painting in the context of his fictional prose. It will be studied how Salas visually reinforces
the social situation in times of crisis through the exhibition of shocking portraits. This
grotesque world is represented both in the figures/images, which constitute the fiction of
the gallery-frame, and in the epitomes, whose purpose was for the reader to recreate in his
memory the moral precept that the literary description transmits in order to compensate
for the lack of pictures in the book
vidas ajenas (1634), by Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, focusing on the use of painting in the context of his fictional prose. It will be studied how Salas visually reinforces
the social situation in times of crisis through the exhibition of shocking portraits. This
grotesque world is represented both in the figures/images, which constitute the fiction of
the gallery-frame, and in the epitomes, whose purpose was for the reader to recreate in his
memory the moral precept that the literary description transmits in order to compensate
for the lack of pictures in the book
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
Salas Barbadillo, Quevedo, Sueños, El Bosco, Grotesque, Painting, Short Novel
List of contributors:
Coppola, Leonardo
Book title:
La narrativa de Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo