Memory and Narrative at the Origin of the Novel

Auteur

Lorenzo Mainini is lecturer in Romance Philology at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Texte du rabat

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature. It explores some structural and formal paths of the 'novelistic machine', through three exemplary cases.

Contenu

Foreword 1. Conjointure. Chrétien de Troyes, Servius and the Virgilian tradition 2. Books of stories and books of novels 3. Dreaming the incipit (towards Proust and the Rose)