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NOVELLISTIC TRAITS IN SOCRATIC LITERATURE BY G. J. DE VRIES Two important works published in the last few years have deepened our insight into the development of the Greek novella; I mean the books by Quintino Cataudella 1) and Sophie Trenkner 2). Although the authors have produced critical and penetrating studies, they must have been aware that their books do not solve all the problems in this notoriously difficult field. The main difficulty is still the inevitable vagueness of the concept "novella". Sophie Trenkner calls it "an imaginary story of limited length, intended to entertain, and describing an event in which the interest arises from the change in the fortunes of the leading characters or from behaviour characteristic of them; an event concerned with real-life people in a real-life setting" (p. XIII). This attempt at a definition, obviously inspired by Erwin Rohde, may be accepted, even if certain elements it contains are unsatisfactory, especially the word "imaginary", to which grave objections may be raised. However, the definition will serve our purpose. But at once the question arises whether the novella can be said to occur in a sufficiently pure form to trace its development in Greek literature. Sophie
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1963
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