Diálogo de voces en el prólogo de la Segunda Parte del Quijote

Abstract

Using the ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin in his The Dialogic Imagination as a point of departure, this study explores the Prologue of the second book of Don Quixote, focusing on the diversity of voices present therein. Despite the absence of external dialogue in this prologue, the dialogic relation between the Reader, the Author, and Avellaneda, all developed as independent characters, is examined. Finally, we analyze how the interaction between the voices of these characters forms the nucleus of this Prologue, and suggest other types of discourse which also find their way into these prefatory pages.