Berganza's Life: Social Critique and Cynical Philosophy

Topic: The social corruption denounced by Berganza in the narrative of his life, the cynical philosophical disquisitions of both dogs on social conventions and the evil in the world. Argument Peralta read the book where Campuzano wrote a conversation between two dogs while sleeping. Campuzano. The reading begins with Berganza, who tells his life to his fellow Scipio. Berganza believed to have been born in Seville, perhaps in the slaughterhouse, where he had his first master, the butcher Nicholas Romo. He escaped from the cruelty of the butcher and later lived with pastors in the country, as guardian of the flock. Unable to find the master of the misdeeds of the shepherds, wolves, returns to Seville and serves a rich merchant. Out of loyalty to his master, he rejects bribes from the maid and, under certain black revenge, he goes and finds a new master as the sheriff's friend, Nicholas Romo. He leaves this world of marshals, clerks, prostitutes, and pimps, partners in robbery, and joins a company of soldiers in Mairena del Alcor. When the drummer and the "wise dog," trained in spectacular wonders, come to Montilla, the witch Cañizares Berganza recognizes the Montilla son, whose two children had been transformed into the witch's dog Camacha. Once discovered and humiliated the witch Cañizares, the dog runs away and goes to plow a gypsy camp near Granada. Fearing that their chicanery use it as a "dog scientist," he goes and serves on the outskirts of Granada, a Moorish gardener. Among the poorly nourished of that race, he comforts his stomach with the crumbs of a poet, and goes forward as "phony figures hors d'oeuvres and silent," until, wounded in the representation of an appetizer in Valladolid, tired of everything, Berganza comes to Mahudes serving at the Hospital of the Resurrection.

Main Characters:

• Scipio: A dog, he is the master of debate, since their opinions should be marked as to follow the dialogue. Scipio's superiority is recognized and accepted by Berganza.
• Berganza is the other dog. His life is counted, and he is the disciple, as it somehow is, of Scipio.