THE FOUNDER OF THE MODERN NOVEL - HENRY FIELDING
THE FOUNDER OF THE MODERN NOVEL - HENRY FIELDING

Summary/Abstract: Henry Fielding was not a spoiled of our interwar media. The founder of the modern novel is, to a large extent, an emulator of the authors of picaresque novels, related, through threads and tastes, with Quevedo, the author of that picturesque Don Pablo de Segovia. As in the picaresque novels, in Fielding's novel, the hero is thrown into the world and wanders through different environments of society, meeting many people, introducing themselves to many lives and gaining experience over experience. His adventures are an opportunity for the author to describe the English society of the time, with as much local colour as it needed so that the characters do not seem schematic, but without falling too much into the actuality copy. The author of Tom Jones became a novelist by spirit of contradiction and the desire to react against Richardson's epistolary novels.

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