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Edward C. Riley
In his greatest and most ambitious novels Cervantes was mindful of the famous ancient examples of that genre, or of like genres. The present article examines how the antecedents of the Coloquio de los perros (The Golden Ass, Lucianesque dialogues) and of Persiles y Sigismunda (Heliodorus's Aethiopic History) served as a point of departure for Cervantes's novelistic creations. What both works have in common is that the most basic innovation is achieved through the constant interruption of the principal narration.
