ABSTRACT
Critics were to disapprove of the “exemplary novel” Cervantes inserts here, saying that it is extrapolated and external to his text. The story’s disastrous ending, so different from the tone of the narrative, whose pace it interrupts, leaves the reader perplexed. Cervantes himself agrees with his critics, at the start of the Second Part, when the bachelor Sansón Carrasco recounts the reception given to the first adventures of the two heroes: “One of the faults they find with this history”, said the bachelor, “is that its author inserted in it a novel called ‘The Ill-Advised Curiosity’; not that it is bad or ill-told, but that it is out of place and has nothing to do with the history of his worship Señor Don Quixote” (De Cervantes, 2013, p. 417).
