Cultural Differences and Tolerance: Humanitarian Principles and Bildungsroman in Cartas marruecas and El Periquillo Sarniento

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Jorge Chen Sham

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The eighteenth century bildungsroman novel reflects the sociocultural ambience and philosophical debates of those times. An important concept signaling the awareness of liberty and the formation of the individual is «tolerance», whose origin can be traced to the conflicts of religious wars. If in the bildungsroman novel learning and experience lead to the awakening of an individual’s conscience, education and pedagogic formation serve to distinguish cultural differences, as seen in two important texts in literature in Spanish: Cartas marruecas (1793) by José Cadalso, and El Periquillo Sarniento (1816) by José Fernández de Lizardi.

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Jorge Chen Sham

Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica jorgechsh@yahoo.com