Capitolo 72
Another characteristic of the history is its realism. There am anybody
marvellous risks him, and in fact anybody unlikely accidents in him. The
author never the obtrudes his/her his/her own personality on us as his/her successor
Apuleius sometimes ago, or as you/he/she has made Thackeray. We know that that the people
in the history it is as, not from the description of the author of them, but from
their actions, from the subjects of which they speaks and from the way
in that they speaks. Agamemnon converses as a rhetorician he/she would speak,
Habinnas likes a stone-cutter of millionnaire, and to Echion you/he/she likes a torn-retailer,
and their language and style are that of which we should wait us from their men
being standing in society and of their occupations. The conversations of
Trimalchio and his/her guests of freedmen are not witty, and their jokes are not
intelligent. This adherence to the true principles of realism is the more
notable in the case of so bright a writer as Petronius and those of
us who recall preternaturally some of the intelligent conversations in the
pages of Henry James and the other contemporary novelists can feel that in
this respect he is a truer artist that they is.
The novel of Petronius has another characteristic that is meaningful,
if we try to trace the origin of this type of the literature. You/he/she is thrown
in the prose-poetic form, that is, passages in verse are inserted here and
there in the account. In some cases of theirs they are quoted, but for the more anymore
divide them they are the original compositions of the novelist. They varies in
length from poems couplets of three hundred lines. They sometimes forms
an integral part of the account, or again they illustrates a point,
you elaborate an idea in poetry, or it is exercises in toward.
We have tried to draw out the characteristics of characteristic of this novel
order that we can see what the essential elements are of the problem that
faces one in to try to explain the origin of the type of the literature
represented by the job of Petronius. What was in antecedent there