"En aquest llibre se fa menció de cavallers errants": zu Joan Peruchos "Les aventures del cavaller Kosmas"

Abstract

Modern European chivalric novels like, for example, Italo Calvino’s Il cavaliere inesistente, Joan Perucho’s Les aventures del cavaller Kosmas, Adolf Muschg’s Der Rote Ritter or Umberto Eco’s Baudolino share some typical traits as metaliterary and self-reflexive discourse or the subtle play with typical constants of their models. The models chosen are, nonetheless, frequently narratives of the respective national traditions, which, in the case of Kosmas, are cleverly hidden behind a curtain of allusions.
Keywords: Literature, post-modern chivalric novels, Perucho, Martorell,
Curial e Güelfa, Torroella, intertextuality, self-reflexive discourse, metanarrativity