Theory of prose by 880-01 Shklovskiĭ Viktor 1893-1984;Sher Benjamin & Sher Benjamin

Theory of prose by 880-01 Shklovskiĭ Viktor 1893-1984;Sher Benjamin & Sher Benjamin

Author:880-01 Shklovskiĭ, Viktor, 1893-1984;Sher, Benjamin & Sher, Benjamin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Prose literature
Publisher: [Elmwood Park, IL, USA] : [Dalkey Archive Press]
Published: 1990-11-13T16:00:00+00:00


Judges are Flesh and Blood, and must allow Nature what she naturally requires; unless it be poor I, who am not to allow mine any food. Thanks to my Friend, Master Doctor Pedro Rezio Tirteafuera here present, who is for starving me to Death, and then swears ’tis for the preservation of my Life. Heaven grant him such a Life, I pray, and all the Gang of such Physickmongers as he is; for the good Physicians deserve Palms and Laurels.”

All that knew Sancho wonder’d to hear him talk so sensibly, and began to think that Offices and Places of Trust inspir’d some Men with Understanding, as they stupify’d and confounded others, (part 2, chap. 49)

In the description of Sancho’s governorship, Cervantes has inserted a short story, poorly executed, about a woman who had run away from her parents’ home dressed in a man’s outfit.

All of these episodes are integrated in one compact and motley kaleidoscope, which is more than just an accumulation of episodes delivered by Sancho upon his renunciation of the governorship. What is evident here is a new interpretation of old material. This is already a step forward in the direction of a new novel. The writer is conscious at this point of his option of presenting his hero not merely as a victim of a variety of jokes and pranks but also as a man who had felt them to the quick.

The humanity of the novel is introduced (for example, in Cervantes’ condemnation of the mockery heaped on Don Quixote by the duke and duchess) as material for new structures.

Here the effect consists of a change in Don Quixote’s two masks and in a reinterpretation of old material.

On the way from the island of Barataria, Sancho Panza meets his friend and neighbor Ricote the Moor, who, under the guise of a pilgrim, has been making his way home, where he had once buried a treasure (chap. 54). After a brief chat, the friends part. This episode has no independent significance but is introduced into the novel in order to connect the story about the Mauritanian woman more firmly to the novel (chap. 63). Tn this chapter we discover that during their assault, the Mauritanian galleys take into custody a young Moor, who turns out later to be a Christian woman and the daughter of Ricote. By sheer coincidence, Ricote himself appears on the scene. The fact is that we have met this Ricote earlier, though Sancho draws the inset tale somehow closer to the main plot. The description of Don Quixote’s meeting with Roque, the bandits’ ringleader, represents a separate story, or rather a story within a story. In the picturesque description of the noble highwayman, Cervantes has inserted a tale about a senselessly jealous woman by the name of Claudia Geronima, who had killed her suitor on false grounds of suspicion. These stories are connected to the novel only by the fact that Don Quixote is present at their telling. This is an almost perfect type of threading.



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