Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Hispanic Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
68,1 (2000) 53-74
Keywords:
Lazarillo de Tormes
;
Inquisition
;
Crypto-Jews
Abstract:
The tens of thousands of confessions written between 1480-1680 for the Inquisition, mainly by Conversos, were the most common form of autobiography of the time and influenced all Iberian autobiographies, including picaresque novels such as "Lazarillo de Tormes". The confessions were structured in view of several actual or potential addresses in mind - from the Inquisitors to God. The most dangerous of these addresses was the first, due to whom the writer practiced various dissimulation strategies to present an edited view of his life. The danger to life posed by the Inquisition affected the psyche of those writing and established a way of conceiving and speaking about the self.
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