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Exemplary Stories

work by Cervantes

Also known as: “Novelas ejemplares”, “Novelas exemplares”

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discussed in biography

In Miguel de Cervantes: Publication of Don Quixote
The next year, the 12 Exemplary Stories were published. The prologue contains the only known verbal portrait of the author:
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innovation in short story writing

In short story: Spreading popularity
Miguel de Cervantes’ experimental Novelas ejemplares (1613; “Exemplary Novels”). Cervantes’ short fictions vary in style and seriousness, but their single concern is clear: to explore the nature of man’s secular existence. This focus was somewhat new for short fiction, heretofore either didactic or escapist.
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Spanish prose of the Renaissance

In Spanish literature: The novel
In the Novelas ejemplares (1613; “Exemplary Tales”), Cervantes claimed to be the first to write novelas (short stories in the Italian manner) in Spanish, differentiating between narratives that interest for their action and those whose merit lies in the mode of telling.
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