Article: The Turpin method in comparative context.(Intersections)(Critical essay)

In a stylistic comparison of Rabelais and Cervantes first published in 1925, Helmut Hatzfeld remarked on a common tendency of the two authors to combine the improbable and the fantastic with a pose of rigorous exactitude.(1) Earlier, Jean Plattard had noticed Rabelais' penchant for "specious verisimilitude" (Plattard 134-39), and many years later Gerard Defaux would comment on the same tendency in his analysis of the sophistry of Rabelais' narrator ("Rabelais et son masque comique" 97-98). In the meantime, Maxime Chevalier studied the many parallels between the role of Turpin in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and the role of the narrator in Cervantes' Don Quijote and concluded ...






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