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Felipe Ruan
By focusing on its fragmentary nature, an aspect that critics have viewed either as deficiency or as rupture that must subjected to the concept of textual unity, this article proposes a reconsideration of the structure of Cervantes¿ ¿El licenciado Vidriera.¿ I suggest that the faults attributed to the novela may be better understood in the sense of breaks and fissures, movements aimed toward discontinuity that come to represent the narrative¿s substratum. As basis or foundation of the tale, the breaks and fissures are interpreted as an antistructure, and in that sense in ¿El licenciado Vidriera¿ one finds a narrative without basis or foundation ¿similar to that of ¿El coloquio de los perros¿¿ which grows and develops in a fragmentary manner. The emphasis placed on breaks and fissures also leads to a reflection on the question of the origin and purpose of the narrative. The end result of such consideration is the realization that in this exemplary tale there is a drive toward the displacement of beginnings and ends.
