The first part studies the conception of reception in the whole of cervantine work. We thus measure why Cervantes denounces chivalrous, pastoral and sentimental tales, guilty of provoking an exaggerated fictional hold and proposing dangerous models of behaviour.The Exemplary Novels answer this worry through the retaking of scenarios extracted from fairy tales and tragic myths (second part).Hence the exemplarity is defined by the poetic underlying of these two ancient models: that of initiation (third part). Two axis of education emerge from the thesis: initiation to humanity and sentiments. Cervantes proposes firstly a few norms of a modernised “chivalry”: placed in the heart of the city, the exemplary hero is the reading instrument of a tr...