"Carmen" : la construcción del texto y del mito español a partir del tópico de un viajero romántico francés

Abstract

This article approaches Carmen’s myth to consider his structure, framed and mixed between fiction and erudite essay, valuing it like succeeded aesthetically, on having understood it like proper of the topic and the erudition of a French traveler of the XIXth century on Spanish writer of folk literature and on the gypsies, in particular; world in which the violent death was settling the matters of love and jealousy and under which there beat the ancient myths of the woman as harmful force.