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Vida de Marcos de Obregón is a Spanish picaresque novel by Vicente Espinel, published in 1618. It presents the life and adventures of Marcos de Obregón through the roguish-servant framework associated with picaresque fiction, linking personal narration with episodic social observation. The work is a...
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Influential Spanish picaresque admired for humane observation and narrative sophistication, though digressive moralizing and lesser visibility constrain its canonical rank.
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Marcos de Obregón is a Spanish picaresque novel by Vicente Espinel, first published in 1618 under the title Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón. Presented as the recollections of an aging squire, it combines travel, adventure, social observation, and material reflecting Espinel's ow...
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Important Golden Age picaresque, admired for influence on Lesage, but less widely read and less canonical than the genre's peaks.
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