Imperfect Fictions

Rabelais, Cervantes, Aristotle, and the Ambiguity of the Novel

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https://doi.org/10.13136/2284-2667/1250

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Cervantes, Rabelais, Gargantua, Don Quixote, fiction, novel

Abstract

The contribution investigates from a theoretical perspective the primacy of Rabelais and Cervantes in the birth of the modern novel. Gargantua and Don Quixote, due to their distance from the discursive regimes of historiography and the medieval and chivalric novel, are considered here as promoters of a fictional space where truth and falsehood are confused and multiplicity, excess and the imperfection are valued. The aim of the research is to determine the contribution of the two authors to the definition and regulation of the novel form.

Copertina di Historias Fingidas, Numero Speciale 2 (2023): Forme e origini del romanzo. Immagine di copertina: Leen Nina, "French actress Barbara Laage in her apartment reading" (Maggio 1946)

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2023-05-16

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2023: Special Issue 2: Forms and origins of the novel

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Monographic

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