Intellectual Villains in Dostoyevsky, Chaucer And Albert Camus
- Author / Editor
- Snipes, Katherine
Intellectual Villains in Dostoyevsky, Chaucer And Albert Camus
- Published
- Discourse: A Review of the Liberal Arts 13 (1970): 240-50.
- Description
- Compares Jean-Baptiste Clamence, narrator of Camus' "The Fall," with other literary characters, including Chaucer's Pardoner who is a manipulator of language and rhetoric, "acutely conscious of his own evil, yet arrogantly intent upon exploiting his knowledge for his own private purpose."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion