Ruses, finesses, bons tours
| Autor: | David LaGuardia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes. :194-208 |
| ISSN: | 2273-0893 2115-6360 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/crm.12532 |
| Popis: | The Cent nouvelles nouvelles of Philippe de Vigneulles represent a narrative world in which crimes and misdemeanors play an important structuring role. The question as to whether these fictional actions correspond to actual legal transgressions in the real world of Metz in the XVIth century cannot be answered simply and unequivocally. Because of the conventions of “carnivalesque” literature according to which Vigneulles wrote his tales, actions that would normally be defined as crimes are tolerated and at times even valorized in the comical situations that he creates. Compared to the violent and punitive legal situation evoked in La Chronique de Philippe de Vigneulles and his Gedenkbuch or Journal, the idea of legality presented in his collection of tales is quite flexible, in accord with the conventions of narrative traditions that preceded Philippe’s work, including genres as varied as the exemplum, the fabliau, and earlier tale collections. Nevertheless, from numerous claims made in the work itself, it seems ironically as though many of these tales were in fact based on actual events that Philippe witnessed in his native city, or on stories that he heard from his contemporaries. The hybridity of this particular version of the Renaissance nouvelle hence combines testimonial accounts with fictive versions of real events, producing an ambivalent world that complicates the task of reading and interpreting these stories. |
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