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Mecanismos de ficcionalización en la vida de Aristipo de Cirene
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[spa] En el primer capítulo del influyente libro The Content and the Form. Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore & London 1987), Hayden White plantea que ni siquiera el formato historiográfico mínimo de la crónica y del catálogo le permite escapar de la formulación literaria que todo relato conlleva. En este estudio pretendemos demostrar que, en algunos casos, el catálogo puede incluso vertebrar los mecanismos de construcción de la ficción literaria en un relato historiográfico, particularmente en el subgénero particular de la biografía filosófica. Para ello, tomaremos como caso de estudio la Vida de Aristipo de Cirene, fundamentalmente en las Vidas y doctrinas de los filósofos ilustres de Diógenes Laercio (II 65-85): una buena parte de los apartados de su biografía responde a diversos títulos del catálogo de sus obras, precisamente aquellos de cuyo contenido poco o nada conocemos. Si añadimos a este estado de cosas que Aristipo es un personaje estereotipado de la Comedia Media, creemos que resulta posible establecer con claridad los mecanismos de ficcionalizazión literaria que operan en la narración de esta peculiar biografía.
[eng] In the first chapter of the influential book The Content and the Form. Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore & London 1987), Hayden White argues that not even the minimal historiographic format of the chronicle and catalogue precludes the literary formulation of every story. In this study, I intend to show that in some cases the catalogue can even influence the construction of literary fiction in a historiographic account, particularly in the subgenre of philosophical biography. With this aim, I will take the Life of Aristippus of Cyrene as a case study, mainly in the Lives and Doctrines of the Illustrious Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius (II 65-85): a good part of the sections of his biography responds to various titles in the catalogue of his works, precisely those of whose content we know little or nothing. If we add to this state of things that Aristippus is a stereotypical character in Middle Comedy, I believe that it is possible to clearly establish the mechanisms of literary fictionalization that operate in the narration of this peculiar biography.
[eng] In the first chapter of the influential book The Content and the Form. Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore & London 1987), Hayden White argues that not even the minimal historiographic format of the chronicle and catalogue precludes the literary formulation of every story. In this study, I intend to show that in some cases the catalogue can even influence the construction of literary fiction in a historiographic account, particularly in the subgenre of philosophical biography. With this aim, I will take the Life of Aristippus of Cyrene as a case study, mainly in the Lives and Doctrines of the Illustrious Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius (II 65-85): a good part of the sections of his biography responds to various titles in the catalogue of his works, precisely those of whose content we know little or nothing. If we add to this state of things that Aristippus is a stereotypical character in Middle Comedy, I believe that it is possible to clearly establish the mechanisms of literary fictionalization that operate in the narration of this peculiar biography.
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GRAU GUIJARRO, Sergi. Mecanismos de ficcionalización en la vida de Aristipo de Cirene. Emérita. 2022. Vol. 90, num. 2, pags. 301-326. ISSN 0013-6662. [consulted: 17 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/192494