설화와 역사적 현실: 파드리케 왕자의 예화집 센데바르(1253)의 다의적 서사체에 대한 소고

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to assess the moral and political perspective of Prince Fadrique(1223-1277) in Sendebar. In this text, we find numerous topics that allude to the Castilian royal court of the time, such as the entrapped prince, the inefficiency of royal power, the importance of wise advice, the danger of conspiracy, and so on. When Fadrique returned to Castile in 1245 after a five-year stay in Frederick II’s Imperial Court in Foggia, he may well have felt deep disgrace as he subsisted under the unilateral rule of his elder brother Alfonso X. Alfonso claimed possession of the duchy of Swabia in 1246 in disregard of his younger brother’s dedicated efforts in Italy to further the Hohenstaufen legacy. Moreover, when Fadrique was involved in the rebellion of his brother Henry in 1255 and, as a consequence, was exiled from Castile in 1260, Alfonso confiscated his extensive property in Seville. I believe that Fadrique marshaled fury and ridicule against Alfonso in Sendebar through the combination of the misogynistic preface and the twenty-three comic and sarcastic exempla. What was the ultimate literary function of the juxtaposition of these two tones, the serious and the humorous? Fadrique very probably devised this extreme contrast of perspectives in order to experiment with a new persuasive narrative style, and to induce Castilian readers to identify with his antipathy towards Alfonso. In this sense, Sendebar is not a literal translation of Arabic fables, but Fadrique’s personal adaptation, which was devised in order to reveal his intense feeling and to provide an emotional catharsis. Furthermore, the contrast between the solemn moral lessons and the witty humor of the collection is at the core of Fadrique’s original narrative technique, and forms the basis of this politically insightful and evocative collection.