O percurso (per)formativo de Lúcio nas Metamorfoses de Apuleio: o burro de ouro em cena

Abstract

Among the varied narrative strategies which are present in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (2nd century a.D.) it is our aim to highlight the role taken by,episodes involving performance and theatrical representation as motus for narrative material, as it occurs in the episodes known like “laughing feast” (books 2 and 3) and “Paris’ judgement” (book 10), and to discuss the incorporation of elements taken from dramatic genre, especially comedy, in Apuleius’ prose fiction. We intend to analyse the use of such compositional resource as an important means for expressing the capacity of sheltering and accomodating different forms and shapes of metamorphoses of the text, expressed in the multifold narrative texture of Apuleian work, so that it constitutes a fine and original game inter literary genres throughout the novel.