LITERARY GENRES AND SOCIAL PRESTIGE IN THE ADVENTURES OF BACHELOR TRAPAZA

Abstract

The Adventures of Bachelor Trapaza is a picaresque novel which mixes dramatic and narrative genres in a thematically unified text. Castillo Solórzano decided to include The Female Chestnut Roaster in this picaresque novel by recuperating a cervantine literary practice, the “interlude to be read.” When portraying Juana as a picaresque main character with aspirations, this short drama offers several keys to understand the prestige system which ruled both the Baroque literary world and by extension, Baroque society.