The Complicities between Cervantes and Jiménez Lozano: A Poetics of Clarity, Indulgence and Creative Independence

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the links between the narrative of Miguel de Cervantes and that of José Jiménez Lozano. These are evidently manifested, not only at the textual level, in works such as El mudejarillo, Maestro Huidobro, Sara de Ur or Las gallinas del Licenciado, but also at the level of poetic conception and, furthermore, in the way of thinking and vision of the world. This allows us to verify the suitability of the concept of “complicity”, which the author from Avila claims against the classic of “literary influence”, closely linked to the idea of imitation or discipleship. The little-studied parallels of the characters in their novels, loaded with irony and metafictional reflection, and also of their vicissitudes, the role of fictional authors, the attachment to linguistic transparency and the worldview that all this expresses point us to a true dialogue through time between two writers who enlighten each other.