The rise of pseudo-historical fiction
Subtitle: Fray Antonio de Guevara's novelizations
By: Horacio Chiong Rivero.
Contributors: Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?
Series: Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures,; vol. 137; Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ;; v. 137.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545? -- Criticism and interpretation.; History in literature.
Description: "Fray Antonio de Guevara (1482-1545), the most prolific writer of pseudo-historical prose in sixteenth-century Spain, was named official chronicler by Emperor Charles V in 1526. Despite his title, Guevara never wrote a conventional history. A master of fictional semblance, Guevara self-fashioned his own literary personae or masks - among them those of friar, bishop, chronicler, courtier, imperial counselor, and court buffoon. In his pseudo-historical prose, Guevara resoundingly uses the voices of both the novelist and the court buffoon, entertaining the reader with humor, wit, satire, and irony. Artistically manipulating both classical and contemporary history, Guevara innovatively creates a vast and labyrinthine web in which history and fiction form an inseparable hybrid: a pseudo-historical narrative that heralds the essay and the modern novel."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-300).
Table of contents: title: Fray Antonio de Guevara, maker of masks; title: The quest for epistolary fiction : Guevara's Epístolas familiares; title: From doctrinal of princes to apocryphal history : the Marco Aurelio and Relox de príncipes; title: The intertextuality of pseudo-historical fiction : Década de Césares; title: The human chronicle of the imperial court : the Menosprecio de corte and other fictions; title: A new form of writing history : Guevara's bouffonesque novelizations.