Casamiento engañoso

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Genres: Short Stories, Classics

119 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1613

About the author

Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.

It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.

In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then released on ransom from his captors by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order.

He subsequently returned to his family in Madrid.
In Esquivias (Province of Toledo), on 12 December 1584, he married the much younger Catalina de Salazar y Palacios (Toledo, Esquivias –, 31 October 1626), daughter of Fernando de Salazar y Vozmediano and Catalina de Palacios. Her uncle Alonso de Quesada y Salazar is said to have inspired the character of Don Quixote. During the next 20 years Cervantes led a nomadic existence, working as a purchasing agent for the Spanish Armada and as a tax collector. He suffered a bankruptcy and was imprisoned at least twice (1597 and 1602) for irregularities in his accounts. Between 1596 and 1600, he lived primarily in Seville. In 1606, Cervantes settled in Madrid, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Cervantes died in Madrid on April 23, 1616.
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Reviews

[Classic reverie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I decided to read Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra's The Dialogue of Dogs and found this short story, "The Deceitful Marriage", that is a short story onto itself and the last part introduces "The Dialogue of Dogs". This story written in 1613 and having read bawdy stories from earlier centuries, I just was just a little thrown back with this double entendre.


"My brains no longer resided in my head just then, but somewhere farther south. All this tickled me no end. I also pictured her property transformed into cash on the barrelhead—not, I hasten to assure you, that I was thinking about anything but the allure that was holding my brains hostage."

I know that is nothing to modern readers but if you like things old fashioned, it was something to read!

For more highlights look under "The Dialogue of Dogs" for this story.


This short story tells of using your eyes and not your brain in finding a mate for marriage. Ensign Campuzano just released from the hospital tells his friend about his unhappy affairs.


I enjoyed this short story which introduced me to Saavedra for the first time!💕

[Matin Davtalab]

نخستین خوانش سال ۹۰

[Raul · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 1/2

[Mitchel Logue · Rating 1 out of 5]

As Cervantes wrote Don Quixote I was anxious to read some of his other work, however this story disappointed me. While it was interesting the whole story could have been trimmed down to less than a page, as the big twist of the marriage being fake shocked me as soon as Dona Clementa came home, however, Dona Estafani told Peralta that wasn’t the case but then a few pages later it was the case; a lot of it seemed unnecessary. The writing was also too much, he had interesting, creative metaphors and writing skills but he drew everything out too much, for example he would say ‘This empty suite case looks like an open grave. And I am the corpse which will go into this grave’. It was just as effective without him explaining it - I think it might be the translation as Don Quixote is so much better.

[tasie · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5

[Enei · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lo que tira un chisme

[Kumari de Silva · Rating 1 out of 5]

I blame the translator. I blame the translator because when I was about 19 or 20 I read Don Quixote and I thought it was one of the greatest books ever. I remember telling my mom I read it and she agreed it was a powerful book. I remember telling my boyfriend about it and he agreed it was moving, beautiful, comic and touching. So all these years later (I'm 55) I find this old copy in a used bookstore of short stories by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Wow! I figure this is going to awesome.

Well it wasn't even amusing. The stories? As translated, they don't even make sense. There are items mentioned that are never mentioned again, like WTF what was that about? And there are actions that lead to nothing and characters without aim or imagination. Like if these stories showed up in a college level creative writing class I would definitely ask "Miguel, what are you trying to say?"

IMHO a story needs a plot, some inner tension, character development, a penultimate moment, a resolution. This book read like a bunch of word strung together like Google translate did the translation. If the problem was idiom, there weren't enough helpful footnotes to explain anything. I must admit I continued reading a little bit out of fascination, because it was like a train wreck. But I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone else.

[Bahman Bahman · Rating 3 out of 5]

yek dastane nesbatan bamazze az cervantes ke man hanooz don kishot esho nakhoonadm:)

[Noelia Martín Luna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Si mientes y engañas no esperes recibir lo contrario.
¿Por qué le estoy dando tres estrellas?

[Luisa Rangel · Rating 5 out of 5]

De un hospital a las afueras de Valladolid, sale el Alférez Campusano en muy mala condición y se encuentra con su viejo amigo el lic. Peralta, que lo ayuda llevándolo a su pensión donde le da de comer. El soldado le dice que se casó con una mujer que lo ha dejado en la calle y decide contar la historia. Otras conclusiones puede sacar el lector una vez conocida la historia del casorio del soldado. De fácil y entretenida lectura, con fina ironía Cervantes nos habla de lo que puede ser un matrimonio entre personas comunes y corrientes y el vertigo que puede haber entre la seducción, las dobles apuestas y las expectativas mal fundadas.
Cuando Peralta le pregunta a Campuzano por qué se casó, este le responde que en realidad no lo sabe.
La historia termina anticipando la siguiente y última novela: el coloquio de los perros.
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[Carmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

-¿Luego casóse vuesa merced? -replicó Peralta.
-Sí, señor -respondió Campuzano.
-Sería por amores -dijo Peralta-, y tales casamientos traen consigo aparejada la ejecución del arrepentimiento.
-No sabré decir si fue por amores -respondió el alférez-, aunque sabré afirmar que fue por dolores, pues de mi casamiento, o cansamiento, saqué tantos en el cuerpo y en el alma, que los del cuerpo, para entretenerlos, me cuestan cuarenta sudores, y los del alma no hallo remedio para aliviarlos siquiera.

El burlador burlado, un tópico típico de la literatura en esta breve Novela Ejemplar que sirve de presentación a la más interesante El coloquio de los perros.

[Jose Antonio · Rating 4 out of 5]

EL CASAMIENTO ENGAÑOSO sirve de introducción a la última de las novelas (en realidad un diálogo) y es de tono realista con un punto picaresco. Podríamos titularla el engañador engañado. El protagonista y narrador (le cuenta sus desventuras a un amigo al salir desahuciado del hospital) se casa por interés con una moza dudosa que parece tener dinero y buena casa cuando en realidad la casa que muestra al desgraciado novio es la de una amiga rica y ella solo tiene la camisa que lleva puesta. El marido engañado acaba abandonado y sifilítico en un hospital y parece que tan mal de la cabeza que ve perros habladores y transcribe sus diálogos.

[Alejandro Orradre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pequeña historia que sirve casi como prólogo a otra pequeña novelette de Miguel de Cervantes. En las pocas páginas que conforman El casamiento engañoso encontramos, no obstante, todos los elementos de estas pequeñas obras: diálogos sin demasiada parafernalia, viajeros que van y vienen, líos de faldas...

Pocas páginas pero bien escritas, nada nuevo en el escritor más famoso de la literatura española.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didnt like it, it just felt abit flat, alot of it felt irrelevant. She scammed him, he scammed her, she robbed him, he was angry but had to settle for being rid of her. I felt nothing and by the time it got interesting it ended.

[Andrea]

No ha sido una buena opción como audiolibro.

[Luis Blázquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Otro más delicioso.

[Reading with Sophia · Rating 3 out of 5]

El casamiento engañoso fue muy divertido de leer. Me adentre en cervantes por obligación y terminé riéndome en la mayoría de sus libros. Es corto, pero divertido, gracioso y picaresco. Este libro sólo te re uerdo que somos lo peor en este mundo pero a su vez te hace reír.

[ISSEL · Rating 3 out of 5]

" Que el que tiene costumbre y gusto de engañar a otro no se debe quejar cuando es engañado."

Personalmente me ha costado mucho seguir la lectura por el vocabulario que emplea pero esto no ha impedido que comprenda la historia. La trama está muy bien lograda y pude sentir el enojo que sintió el alférez al descubrir la verdad. Es una buena manera de hacernos ver que mentirosos hay muchos y que el que es aprovechado o miente, termina pagando con la misma moneda. Cervantes con las novelas “ejemplares” pretende enseñar. En este caso lo hace a través de una moraleja y al final de la novela la enlaza con otra.

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horrible horrible horrible. carece de sentido. por supuesto, tuve que leerlo para clase. admiro la literatura española pero cervantes no es de mi agrado en absoluto. no me gustan sus tramas ni su escritura. mis disculpas a la literatura!

[Comelibros]

El que quiere engañar es el engañado. Otra genialidad de Don Miguel de Cervantes.

[Juanma Montes · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5/5.0

[Iain Hamill · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/100 Glimpse of Truth Short Stories

Potentially more predictable in English that it's original Spanish, interesting cautionary tale!

[Elías Verité · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una novela muy entretenida y ligera. El final me encantó, da paso a "El coloquio de los perros".