...Discusses the picaresque gait in the 2-volume novel Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)by Mateo Alemán and its 1622 translation by James Mabbe called The Rogue. Analyses the ways in which walking has moral valence in this novel. Argues that the novel’s embodied imagery...

... autobiographical narrative of Guzmán de Alfarache, Mateo Alemán explores the isolation of his picaresque protagonist through the device of friendship. Echoing concerns that go back as far as Cicero’s De amicitia, Guzmán’s formulation of the problem of finding friends highlights...