«Postema y landre te mate»: curses, blessings and other expressions, and their foreshadowing function in La Celestina

Abstract

The blessings and curses in La Celestina not only have the function of simple stock phrase of courtesy or reproach, respectively. They also affect the time to operate as foreshadowing anticipate events. There are also other premonitory phrases throughout the book. The foreshadowing have to do with the outcome, in particular with the obtaining of the wishes and with the death of the characters: Calisto, Melibea, Celestina and the servants. In the case of Calisto, even there are allusions that described also it way in that goes to die, for example, the words of the old woman: «Digo que me alegro de estas nuevas como los cirujanos de los descalabrados». My purpose in the writing of the present proposed is demonstrate that the appearance continuous of anticipations, through phraseological units, affects in the form in that is perceived the time of the literary work.