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Novelas amorosas y ejemplares

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Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (1637; “Novels of Romance and Exemplary Tales”) is a collection of short novels about the romantic complications of married life, ostensibly told one evening to amuse a sick woman. The stories are mostly about women who are mistreated by husbands or…
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Spanish literature

In Spanish literature: The novel
…short stories, in the collections Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (1637; Eng. trans. The Enchantments of Love: Amorous and Exemplary Novels) and Desengaños amorosos (1647; “Disillusion in Love”). Both employ framing structures in which, like Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, men and women gather to tell stories; many characters from the first collection…
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