Cervantes y la Quixotic Fictionel hibridismo genérico
ISSN: 0277-6995
Año de publicación: 2001
Volumen: 21
Número: 2
Páginas: 5-26
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
Resumen
Tobias Smollett's theoretical considerations on the novel appear throughout his literary career, e.g. in his prologue to Roderick Random or in the prologues to his translations of Gil Blas and Don Quixote. Smollett drew from the great models of the Spanish and French picaresque traditions as well as from Don Quixote ¿the influence of which is particularly evident in Sir Laucelot Greaves. This essay explores the chief quixotic element in Smollett's best-known novel, Humphry Clinker: its hybrid quality, i.e. the composition of the ideal novel as a composite of the previous and contemporary novelistic trends. Humphry Clinker is therefore a literary compendium of eighteenth-century novelistic schools ¿like Don Quixote was of the fifteenth-century Spanish novel.