Las lágrimas de Hernán Cortés en la «Historia verdadera» de Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Rodríguez Mansilla, Fernando
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Artykuł z czasopisma
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2016
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Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 4, Nº. 1, 2016, pags. 103-117
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This article analyzes the function of Hernán Cortés' tears in the Historia verdadera by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Some critics have read Cortés' weeping as a sign of weakness. Actually, the tears of the hero are a manifestation that links the figure of the conqueror -and by extension the whole text- to the classical epic tradition, as well as to an incipient concept of tragedy.