Capitolo 77
heroes of the old fiction gave way to the substantial man of business of
the new one, in the moment in which Thaddeus in Warsaw its place has produced in ours
actual novels to Silas Lapham and the erotic and bourgeois history of
adventure resulted, as we finds him/it to us in the Greek and existing novels of the second
and third centuries of ours it was. If we can suppose that this stage of
development had come first to the time of Petronius that we can think about his
I romance as a parody of such novel. However, if the bourgeois novel
you/he/she had not appeared first 50 AD, then, if we consider his/her history a parody
of a prose narrative, it has to be a parody of such heroic novel as
that of Ninos or a parody of the heroic and longer novels that developed
out of the rhetorical account. If excavations in Egypt or to Herculaneum
you/he/she should bring for turning on a bourgeois and serious history of adventure, they is able
I/you/he/she furnish us the lacking connection. Up to that, or unless, such discovery is made
the chain of the evidence is incomplete.
The two theories of the realistic novel that we am discussing
supposes that it is a parody of of the anterior form of the literature and that
this fact engraves for the aspect of the satirical one or cynical element
in him. However, the other students of literary history think that this
characteristic was brought on directly from the Milesian tale[84] or the
Satire of Menippean. [85] to how much different son-in-laws of histories the term
"The history" of Milesian was applied by the venerable old men it is a matter of dispute, but
the existence of the novella in front of the duration of Petronius is over
question. We find us some indeed champions. In his/her form of commonest it
introduced only an episode of the life of every-day. It revealed some human
weakness or weak. It was very often a love story illegitimate. His/her
the philosophy of the life was: The honesty of any man and the virtue of any woman are
unassailable. In all these respects, salute in the fact that introduces one