The Pícaro follows the conquistador: Pablos plies the oceans
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https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2009.v71.i142.95Keywords:
Rogue, America, Greed, Morality, NabobAbstract
At the end of his novel Pablos, the main character of el Buscón by Quevedo, is ready to initiate his trip to America, but the narrator informs us that his staying in the New World did not change his social and economic status. Alonso, the main character of Alonso, mozo de muchos amos by Jerónimo Alcalá, describes to the reader a similar failure during his staying in Mexico. In the present study I analyze the reasons why these two picaros failed in his pursue of the «American dream». Quevedo and Alcalá created two perfect examples of the greed and immorality of the Spaniards who traveled to America at that time, and they used both characters as a way to warn those who wanted to follow them.
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