The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for 'rogue' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but...
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David Copperfield (redirect from David Copperfield (novel))
Satire and irony are central to the picaresque novel. Comedy is also an aspect of the British picaresque novel tradition of Laurence Sterne, Henry Fielding...
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the (proto)-picaresque novel tradition. Some of these fragmented novels are also categorized as short story collections or epistolary novels. Some fragmentary...
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"stumbling, droopy-drawered attempt at a picaresque novel". The conclusion was "A heavy-handed, one-joke sort of novel which is, finally, a cheat". Publishers...
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A Confederacy of Dunces (category Picaresque novels)
A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death...
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Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October...
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that the novel is set safely in the past". According to Stewart O'Nan of The Atlantic, Cal's narration evokes the style of the picaresque novel, retelling...
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List of story structures (section Picaresque novel)
has been made into English. Born in Spain in the 16th century, the picaresque novel is a type of narrative told in the first person by a lowborn protagonist...
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Factotum (1975) is a picaresque novel by American author Charles Bukowski. It is Bukowski’s second novel and a prequel to Post Office (1971). Set in the...
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Dead Souls (category Picaresque novels)
pretentiousness, fake significance and philistinism). It is also described as a picaresque novel, a literary genre virtually non-existent in Russian literature of the...
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