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440 - SOREL, Charles - Le Berger extravagant, où parmy des Fantais…
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SOREL, Charles - Le Berger extravagant, où parmy des Fantaisies amoureuses on voce les impertinences des Romans & de la Poësie. Rouen, Jean Osmont, 1646. 4 parts in two vol. in-8, front, (6) ff. 447 pp. 2 figs. t.; (4) ff. 428 pp.; (6) ff. 119 pp.; (1) f., 569 pp. (last one 563), each part with separate title, abrasion on front board resulting in the loss of a small part of the engraving, several light spottings, contemporary soft vellum. LEVER 92. 3rd edition after the 2nd published under the title L'Anti-roman. The frontispiece and the 2 fig. are engraved by Crispin de Passe. One of them represents the portrait of the Belle Charité drawn on Sorel's indications and intended to ridicule the hyperbolic metaphors of precious literature. ''This satire is first and foremost an enormous catalogue, in which, from Héliodore and Longus to Olenix du Montsacré and Vital d'Audiguier, there is a parade of all the pastoral novels, adventure stories, allegorical tales, sentimental or heroic novels that the romance genre has been able to produce. The narrative in Sorel's novel is constantly quotable: there is hardly an episode, a character, a situation or even a sentence that does not refer to an episode, a character, a situation or a sentence already imagined by some other novelist, whether near or far, famous or obscure. A kind of universal novel, the Extravagant Shepherd seeks to contain all novelistic literature, to suffocate it under buffoonish parody and burlesque fantasy''. (J. Serroy, Roman et réalité, p. 297). Le Berger extravagant'' recounts the misadventures of a young bourgeois from Paris so intoxicated by reading bucolic fictions that he dreams of living for real the adventures of the shepherds of Astrée. He gave up his law studies, changed his first name from Louis to Lysis, dressed as a shepherd, equipped himself with a hoe and a bread-basket, bought a few sheep (''rejects from the butchers of Poissy'') and set off to wander the hills of Saint-Cloud and then the plains of Brie, trying to lead the same life as Honoré d'Urfé's heroes. The local squires amuse themselves at his expense and keep him in his delusion by pretending to play along with him. (M. Lever, Le Roman français au XVIIe s., p. 94).
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