On Chivalry: A Different Approach
On Chivalry: A Different Approach

Summary/Abstract: A vast cultural circle closes with Robinson, one century after the adventure experienced by the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, in a realm of oscillating illusions. Man, as depicted by his literary effigy, reiterates the idea of divinity, the image of love, of the mythical couple, bringing into the foreground an image of exemplary singularity, which, while not excluding erotic fulfilment, stops considering it as essential or as the source of cosmic values. As the novel of the 19th century will show, from Balzac on, love becomes one of the modern man’s aspirations, alongside with glory, power, wealth, and career. This does not mean that the Platonist model is completely lost: it is always present, following different rules every time, a part of the many models which define modern existence.

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