Today we will talk about one of the most important novels of the Mexican literature. We refer to the Periquillo Sarniento, a work written by Jose Joaquin Fernandez of Lizardi, during the era of independence of the North American country, back in the year 1816.
Periquillo Sarniento is a book of adventure comics, in know the life of main character, Pedro Sarmiento, who by his ingenuity, point of humiliation of his companions during their school life.
Periquillo Sarniento becomes a boy left, which is an example of what can happen in those families who give much freedom and few limits on their children, i.e. move from greed to lawlessness, together with bad friendships. Product of this bad initial education, Periquillo Sarniento will be later involved in some events rather unpleasant, and its destination leads him to be clergyman to get involved in matters corrupt as the swindle. The destination would be playing a bad past and is that despite falling in love comes to know the misery of heartache and up to the death of his partner. Finally Periquillo Sarniento escapes from their daily lives and traveling toward the distant China to where entered his life, going back to the past and analyzing the course of his life, and in this way get a life more quiet. Without doubt a peaceful end to a life so crazy.
If we should define this work, we could say that this is a very advanced for the time with visions of modern education and a severe criticism to the society of that time.