The sarniento parakeet III

Life and facts of Periquillo Sarniento written by him and his children was the original name of the novel when it was published in 1816 in a three-volume version, written by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi. There is a fourth volume that was censored for criticizing slavery. They were not published in full under the title El periquillo Sarniento until 1830, when Lizardi died. This is the story of this picaresque novel considered the first of the genre written in Latin America.
The work tells the life of an old man, Pedro Sarmiento, alias “el Periquillo Sarniento”, who before the approach of death writes his biography

“With the sound intention that my children be instructed in the subjects about which I speak to them.”

The protagonist goes from a tragic experience, when he is still a young rogue, to an epic adventure, all seasoned with a narrative full of ironies, criticisms or reflections on the uses and customs of the society of that time. All of which takes place at the end of the Spanish domination in Mexico. For this reason, The pSarniento hedgehog It is characterized by a language full of Mexicanisms, jokes and forms of speech typical of the people and the most disadvantaged classes of the society of the moment, since the protagonist is a rogue and a thief, and shows the folklore and traditions of the American country.
The novel addresses themes such as

• corruption,
• ignorance
• and disinformation

that exemplified the Spanish administration in the nation. In addition, it aims to criticize the corrupt institutions and failed systems of the time with the intention of educating the people, pointing out their mistakes in order to reform and improve society.