Le Virgile travesti
by Paul Scarron, edited by Jean Serroy
Putting Aeneas in a grotesque bourgeois costume, Scarron plays with literary tradition and amplifies each episode with parodic incidents and anachronistic digressions, echoes of the political and aesthetic dissonances of his time. He forges a rich and extravagant language that culminates in Le roman comique.
- By (author) Paul Scarron
- Edited by Jean Serroy
Review - French En transformant Enee en bourgeois grotesque et materialiste, Scarron joue avec la tradition classique de l'imitation des Anciens, sans pour autant remettre en question l'autorite de Virgile. Le travestissement, qui amplifie chaque episode d'incidents parodiques et de digressions anachroniques, se fait ici l'echo des dissonances politiques et esthetiques de son contexte de creation. Scarron y forge une langue riche et extravagante qui contribue a imposer le burlesque comme phenomene litteraire et qui trouve son aboutissement dans Le Roman comique. De l'epopee virgilienne, il garde la dimension humaine, ramenant le grossissement epique a un niveau plus familier : l'incendie de Troie se metamorphose en un tableau poignant des catastrophes qui ravagent les campagnes.
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