Abstract

The antique ass novels create the problem if there is identity or not between author and narrator/protagonist, if it is an autobiographic text or not. The humanistic reception in Renaissance from Poggio to Sieder has to handle these problems and find one possibility to answer because they connect the ass novels to the lucianic tradition of the imaginary voyages and tall tales (Lügendichtung). Then the supposed autobiographic identity changes to what is called in modern theory of literature an autofiction.

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