La anatomía de El diablo cojuelo

Freeing himself from the conflicting doctrines of novelistic interpretation George Peale's innovative study separates <i>El Diablo cojuelo</i> from other Iberian prose works of its time striking against the critical tendency to align the text with either <i>Lazarillo de Tormes</i> for its picaresque qualities or the <i>Celestina</i> for its novelistic ones. Instead this volume by re-examining the generic elements of <i>El Diablo cojuelo</i> establishes it as an <i>Anatomy</i> a style of deconstructive satire born in the sixteenth century. A welcome addition to the critical canon on early Iberian fictional prose this book serves scholars of the peninsula at all levels breaking down barriers and joyously complicating the categorization of narrative.