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Manuscripts and books for review should be sent to Professor J OHN J. A LLEN , Editor, Cervantes , ASB 170, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611. La gitanilla is the first of the twelve Novelas ejemplares . This article fathoms some of the reasons that might have decided Cervantes to give it the place of honor in such an extraordinary collection of short stories. This essay attempts to show the function of the autobiographical elements in the work. Although our interest in the autobiographical dimension of the Viaje is in part a product of a mode of reading, characteristic of our time, which tends to attribute a dominant function to one particular feature of the work, this aspect cannot be separated from the author-narrator relationship.