Intellectual Villains in Dostoyevsky, Chaucer And Albert Camus

Author / Editor
Snipes, Katherine

Title
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