Picaresques

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A picaresque novel is (un)structured as a series of adventures which happen to a usually lovable rogue. This style of novel was popularised in Spain in the 1550s; 'picaro' is Spanish for rogue. Picaresque or picaresque-ish novels include:

  • Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • Candide by Voltaire and the novel I consider to be an updated version of Candide, Brazil by John Updike
  • The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens which famously wasn't conceived as a novel at all but as a series of linked stories and whose protagonist Mr Pickwick is a very bourgeois picaro.
  • Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • The White Tiger by Aravind Ardiga


This review was written by

the author of Bally and Bro, Motherdarling 

and The Kids of God




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