Regarding the Modern Virtue of Considering the Common good over one’s own Interests: Dreams and other Literary Devices in «Los paseos de la verdad» by Fernández de Lizardi

• Main Author: M.ª Isabel TERÁN ELIZONDO
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Salamanca 2011-01-01
• Series: Cuadernos Dieciochistas
• Subjects: fernández de lizardi; sueños; literatura; moral
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1576-7914/article/view/7606

<p class="CM3" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">His article studies the presence of dreams as a recurring narrative element in the work of Fernández de Lizardi, and in particular in <em>Los paseos de la verdad</em>, published in five excerpts in 1815 in the <em>Alacena de Frioleras</em>, in imitation of the <em>Sueños</em> of torres Villarroel. Emphasis is placed on the moralizing intention of the author and the linking of dreams to the constitution of an ideal that of a new nation built upon a synthesis of the best ideas of the age, be they traditional or modern.</span></p>