El Desdén del Alameda of Céspedes and Meneses in the orbit of the Novelas Ejemplares of Cervantes.

Abstract

Four decades younger than Cervantes, Céspedes y Meneses reproduces in El Desdén del Alameda a love story that reminds in its motifs (rape, atonement, anagnorisis and happy ending) of Cervantes's work La fuerza de la sangre. At the same time, Céspedes y Meneses provides an altogether different lesson (instead of the forced marriage due to social conventions and without any repentance in LFS, we find the acceptance of the blame and the enforcement of the given word of marriage in EDA). So in the end, we have here two different points of view to confront the same idea.