Gil Blas (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alain-René Lesage
- First Published: 1715
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: Spain
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Crime or criminals, Doctors, Robbery or robbers, Seventeenth century, Servants, Spain or Spanish people, Nobility, Royal courts or courtiers
- Locales: Spain
Characters Discussed
Gil Blas of Santillane (heel blahs, sahn- tee-YAHN), a rogue who serves a series of masters and finally ends up a country gentleman.
Blas of Santillane, his father, married to an elderly chambermaid.
Gil Pérez (PEH-rehs), Gil’s uncle, a fat canon who gives Gil forty pistoles and a donkey and sends him to the University of Salamanca.
Antonia (ahn-TOH-nyah), a farmer’s daughter who becomes Gil’s wife. She and their baby daughter die.
Dorothea (doh-roh-TEH-ah), Gil’s second wife, with whom he spends his remaining days in...
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