La gitanilla
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La gitanilla es la primera y la más popular de las Novelas ejemplares de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Se ignora la fecha de su composi-ción. En ella Cervantes mezcla los tópicos sobre los gitanos en un juego de identidades. El relato empieza del modo que sigue:
Parece que los gitanos y gitanas solamente nacieron en el mundo para ser ladrones. Nacen de padres ladrones, críanse con ladrones, estudian para ladrones y, finalmente, salen con ser ladrones corrientes y molientes, a todo ruedo. Y la gana del hurtar, y el hurtar, son en ellos como accidentes inseparables, que no se quitan sino con la muerte.
Miguel de Cervantes compone un relato itinerante, con rasgos de la picaresca y lleno de acción. Preciosa es una muchacha de origen noble raptada por unos gitanos y educada por ellos, y un noble que se enamora de ella y decide llevar vida gitana. Preciosa es una criatura bella, inteligente y llena de vitalidad. Poco a poco la trama revela que la gitanilla, Preciosa, es un personaje complejo y que las acusaciones a los gitanos antes citadas son injustas.
Así se despliega una espiral de enredos y confusiones ordenadas en una trama cerrada y mordaz. La gitanilla es también un retrato de las diferencias étnicas de la época cervantina.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcala de Henares, 1547-Madrid, 1616). Espana. Hijo de Rodrigo Cervantes, cirujano, y Leonor de Cortina. Se sabe muy poco de su infancia y adolescencia. Era el cuarto hijo entre siete. Las primeras noticias que se tienen de Cervantes son de su etapa de estudiante, en Madrid. A los veintidos anos se fue a Italia, para acompanar al cardenal Acquaviva. En 1571 participo en la batalla de Lepanto, donde sufrio heridas en el pecho y la mano izquierda. Aunque su brazo quedo inutilizado, combatio despues en Corfu, Ambarino y Tunez. En 1584 se caso con Catalina de Palacios, no fue un matrimonio afortunado. Tres anos mas tarde, en 1587, se traslado a Sevilla y fue comisario de abastos. En esa ciudad sufrio carcel varias veces por sus problemas economicos. Hacia 1603 o 1604 se fue a Valladolid y alli tambien fue a prision, esta vez acusado de un asesinato. Desde 1606, tras la publicacion del Quijote, fue reconocido como un escritor famoso y vivio en Madrid.
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