Summary
Miguel de Cervantes: Model novels
Cervantes introduced the short story to Spanish literature based on the Italian novels of Boccaccio's origin. He improved it formally and in terms of content, adding dialogues that were almost absent in Italian stories, cleaning it of comments and quotes that diverted attention from the plot. He, on the other hand, enriched it with numerous episodes, without disturbing the unity, placed it in a domestic environment and removed traces of the miraculous. Exemplary novellas are a heterogeneous set of carefully thought-out stories, and it's a shame that they were only partially translated into Croatian.
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