Les Marranes

• Main Author: Albert Bensoussan
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon 2015-06-01
• Series: Atalaya
• Subjects: Marranos; marranism; Jew; picaresque novel; Don Quixote
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/atalaya/1330

This article provides a historical, etymological and philological analysis of the term “marrano” as well as a brief study of the historical impact of the Marranos. The literary expression “marranism” will thus be tackled through the “Duelos y quebrantos” mystery in Don Quixote, the burlesque poetry of Antón of Montoro and the works of Mateo Alemán where marranism becomes a fictional medium in Guzmán de Alfarache. The article will then deal with the posterity of marranos and marranism, the Xuetes of Majorca, Albert Cohen’s work and the evolution of this concept in work by the sociologist Edgar Morin. The author thus intends to define the path of marranos and marranism through the centuries and thought up to the present day.