Lazarillo de Tormes and the Quest tor Authority
| Autor: | Douglas M. Carey |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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| Zdroj: | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 94:36-46 |
| ISSN: | 1938-1530 0030-8129 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/461799 |
| Popis: | The struggle between power, which enables the individual to participate in social exchange, and desire (resulting from an absence or lack), which isolates the individual from the social order, characterizes the sixteenth-century prototype picaresque novel Lazarillo de Tormes; and art is posited throughout as a means of attaining power. At each stage of this pseudoautobiography, the hero, functioning as both character (the young Lazarillo) and narrator (the adult Lázaro), depends on the use of rhetoric to influence others and change his station in life. The young trickster employs cunning wit in his struggle to integrate himself into a seemingly closed society, and the mature apologist, in his forced confession, an antiutopian transformation of the Augustinian confessional form, uses verbal art in an attempt to mediate the conflict between his desire and the power of authorities who still persecute him despite the degree of worldly success he has attained. |
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