Abstract
Manuel Fernández y González (1821–1888), a true professional of serial novels, wrote several works related to Cervantes: the epic poem La batalla de Lepanto, and among others, the novel El Príncipe de los Ingenios Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, an extensive work of 1,300 pages published c. 1876–1878. This essay focuses on this novel, which can be considered, in all its excess, as a magnificent example of the overflowing fantasy and unbridled verbosity of the novelist. The analysis identifies and comments on the elements of Fernandez y Gonzalez’s excesses: interspersed stories full of unlikely episodes, multiplication of secondary characters, all kinds of digressions, techniques used by serial novelists such as the “abuse of the new paragraph” to fill more and more pages, etc.
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