Meanings of picaresque novel in English

In what is essentially a picaresque novel, we follow the exploits of its protagonist, Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, an American studying law at Trinity College.

And Gauri Gill's extraordinary pictures of Maharashtrian tribesmen wearing papier-mache masks based on their own sense of themselves as characters in a picaresque novel.

It was probably written as a burlesque epic woven thematically around the "wrath of Priapus", but historically it is the ancestor of the picaresque novel.

Artist, visionary and writer - John Berger is undimmed at 90 Read more His picaresque novel G won the Booker prize in 1972.

Spanish: The Picaresque novel, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades.

Daniel Defoe didn't just write picaresque novels of adventure, he lived the life of a character from one of his own tales.

Land... sea... everything... become a great adventurer like my favourite heroes in the picaresque novels of Le Sage, Defoe, Smollett and Fielding?

The Picaresque novel in Spain and its counterparts, Till Eulenspiegel or Reinecke Vos in the north, told the adventures of some rascal or vagabond.