Spalinger, Roland (2022). Autonomie und Providenz. C. F. Meyers "Der Heilige" und "Die Versuchung des Pescara". In: Blum, Daniela; Detering, Nicolas; Gunreben, Marie; von Lüpke, Beatrice (eds.) Entscheidung zur Heiligkeit? Autonomie und Providenz im legendarischen Erzählen vom Mittelalter bis zur Moderne. Myosotis. Forschungen zur europäischen Traditionsgeschichte: Vol. 10 (pp. 239-255). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter
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In his novellas "The Saint" and "The Temptation of Pescara", C. F. Meyer takes the notion that the literary portrayal of saints oscillates between autonomy and providence as an occasion to grapple with a theoretical conundrum: How is it possible to narrate a saint? To answer this question, Meyer makes use of the realist evidence regime on the one hand, which he links to the legendary narrative, and the New Testament temptation pericope on the other, which already poses the problem of autonomy for Christ himself and which can thus also be applied to Pescara’s 'Imitatio Christi'.
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