| 单词 | picaresque |
| 例句 | When Edward Abbey was writing The Monkey Wrench Gang, his picaresque novel about eco-terrorism in the canyon country, his pal Ken Sleight was said to have inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The most Cervantean story is “Going for a Beer,” a picaresque about a modern drunk who is easily captivated by random women in bars. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Two lithographs from 1827 by European visitors to Rio, capital of the new empire of Brazil, depict picaresque street scenes crowded with traders, monks, hawkers and slaves. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z There's the oddly sprawling narrative, wildly uneven in the picaresque tradition, beginning in media res before pulling back, taking tonally unexpected turns. Comedies in serious clothing: an introduction to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Recounted in poetic prose with context from pop-history and cultural commentary, MacLean’s picaresque adventures include poignant reunions and chance encounters with a colorful cast of characters ranging from intellectuals to proletarians, tycoons to destitute migrants. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The play is also picaresque as to genre, sampling theatrical styles along the way. Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z There’s only a little time left to invest in a ticket to Bruce Norris’s picaresque about free market capitalism. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Frequently, his collages tilt at mortality – as well as being funny, sharp, picaresque, baleful and acute. Tom Lubbock: the pain and the pleasure 2010-12-13T17:00:00Z The novel is a slapdash, picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale — “On the Road” crossed with “Henderson the Rain King” with some nods to “National Lampoon’s Vacation” along the way. Review: Dave Eggers’s New Novel, ‘Heroes of the Frontier’ 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Social realism will not help him on his picaresque journey. Escaping Slavery in a Hot-Air Balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z With their angular bodies, pointy noses and chins and squinted eyes, the women are like characters in a picaresque novel. Toulouse-Lautrec’s Groundbreaking Prints at MoMA 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Colombians have a term for a genre of fiction that is not picaresque, as in Don Quixote, but "sicaresque", after the ubiquitous literary figure of the sicario, or hired killer for drug cartels. The Sound of Things falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez – review 2012-11-16T08:00:07Z Many have tried to adapt Voltaire's picaresque satire for the stage, most famously Lillian Hellman and a host of co-writers in the Leonard Bernstein musical. 2013 theatre preview: Helen Mirren gets another crack at the Queen and Peter Pan meets Alice in Wonderland 2012-12-30T19:30:01Z Early in the film you have the sense that this picaresque adventure tale had only the sketchiest of master plans. Movie Review: ?Puss in Boots? With Antonio Banderas - Review 2011-10-27T21:48:54Z It's a picaresque satire of modern America, with all its anomie and family dysfunction, empty consumerism and sexting, which moves towards wholeness and redemption – to building a new family around yourself when your own implodes. Women's prize for fiction: a darkly comic and addictively readable winner 2013-06-05T19:48:54Z At this point, though, Jarvis’s colorful picaresque turns into a screed against Dickens, the ambitious writer who made his reputation with a text that was supposed to be mere connective tissue for Seymour’s illustrations. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Four Lions is a bumbling picaresque about a quartet of would-be jihadis who hatch a plot to bomb the London Marathon. 'Bin Laden doesn't do jokes' 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z The tales become more picaresque as New Wave and Britpop bands begin checking in and behaving like New Wave and Britpop bands. ‘Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm’ Review: Rockers Ripping It Up 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z That's the tripping point for this adaptation of Mordecai Richler's ribald, picaresque novel. Barney, The Tempest and Casino Jack: Warming Up for Oscar 2010-12-31T07:00:00Z With all of these undercurrents and subterranean connections, “Sudden Death” might seem Pynchonesque but for its tone, which is mischievous and picaresque rather than paranoid and foreboding. Review: In Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death,’ a Farcical Duel With Topspin 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Like many of Mr. Carey’s books, “Parrot and Olivier” is picaresque and depicts a growing friendship between the two men, who begin by loathing and distrusting each other. Peter Carey, Australian at Home in New York 2010-04-26T22:21:00Z His picaresque novel “The Tin Drum,” in which he created a diabolical dwarf to symbolize his country’s stunted morality during and after Nazism, brought him near-universal literary acclaim after its publication in 1959. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Shaw structures “Saint Joan” as a picaresque chronicle: six scenes and an epilogue that mark turning points in Joan’s life and reputation. Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z In 1901, he brought out “Kim,” a picaresque boy’s adventure partly inspired by “Huckleberry Finn”; it sent Henry James into raptures. In defense of Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Books’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps the newly decorated library will inspire another picaresque success story. New Elena Ferrante-inspired street art to be unveiled in Naples 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z There’s not much of Cervantes’s picaresque tale left in the ballet version of “Don Quixote.” Dance Review: With the Matadors, Capes, Gypsies and Dancing, Who Needs a Plot? 2011-05-18T22:30:31Z As with many picaresque narratives “The Walk Across America for Mother Earth” takes some unprofitable detours and occasionally gets bogged down in repetition. | 'The Walk Across America for Mother Earth': Protesters Armed With Wigs and Sequins 2011-01-21T03:01:21Z What distinguishes it in the early going is precisely that it has different aims–it takes the character seriously, but it’s more of an entertainment, more picaresque. Better Call Saul: Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young(er) Man 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The twenty-minute restriction—which Parker admits that she plans to violate—was an amusing touch, given the almost impossibly picaresque scope of Hill’s life, and his own propensity for indulging in personal history. The Improbable Life of Ray Hill 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z His last book, “The Amalgamation Polka,” appeared in 2006 and offered a bizarre picaresque of the Civil War. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Early on, Rushdie reveals that we’re reading a manuscript being written by a middling spy novelist who wants to write “a book radically unlike any other he had ever attempted . . . picaresque and crazy and dangerous.” Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z As a picaresque goes, it is an intimate one, the plot created out of Tiller’s compulsion to “latch on” — a truth about Tiller that Pong reveals to him, and that Val exploits. Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Medieval works lend themselves to the picaresque, or multiple narration – think of The Decameròn or The Canterbury Tales. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z “The End of Eddy,” which runs through Nov. 21 at BAM Fisher as part of the Next Wave festival, is a boy’s survival story, picaresque like David Copperfield but with a hip-hop soundtrack. Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Like the picaresque tale of “Monkey” itself, which may delight those already familiar with its colorful characters, these obscurities are no doubt best appreciated by those already well-versed in the tenets of Buddhism. Theater Review: ‘Monkey’ Is a Break From Usual Lincoln Center Festival Fare 2013-07-10T02:01:08Z Cromwell is the picaresque hero of the novel — tolerant, passionate, intellectually inquisitive, humane. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ by Hilary Mantel 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It is an episodic, picaresque kind of story. Tale of chimp "Nim" gains strong buzz at Sundance 2011-01-21T21:55:50Z It was as real as Paris, and picaresque fantasies were harder to maintain in front of the lens. An 1840s Road Trip, Captured on Lustrous Silver 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Rafting down the Mississippi, Twain captured pre-Civil War America with a picaresque tale of marks and swindlers, innocents and thugs. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s cute, sort of, as well as crudely slapstick and sweetly picaresque, and just a bit misty and crispy. | 'My Friend Pinto': ?My Friend Pinto,? Bollywood Comedy Starring Prateik ? Review 2011-10-16T22:01:55Z Reflecting on Nim’s story Mr. Marsh compared it to the tradition of the picaresque novel. An Experiment That Evolved Into a Tragedy 2011-07-02T04:10:56Z A dark picaresque released in 1985, it follows the fortunes of a young New Yorker, played by Griffin Dunne, as he weathers a series of nocturnal misadventures. Michael Ballhaus, an Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer, Dies at 81 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Like her equally wondrous “Nights at the Circus,” Carter’s 1991 magical realist comedy is both a cracking picaresque and a meditation on what it means when art and life commingle. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z But when he discovers two unexpected interlopers, his path is radically redirected, leading him on a picaresque journey to New York. 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z A picaresque epic told by 121-year-old Jack Crabb, the last survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn, this fitfully enthralling movie tilts, like Bonnie and Clyde, between winking comedy and a tragic body count. Appreciation: Arthur Penn, the Miracle Worker of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2010-09-30T18:15:00Z Or if not that, a picaresque serious comedy like “Catch Me if You Can.” | 'The Chameleon': A ?Who Is It?? More Than a Whodunit 2011-07-14T22:46:18Z There’s the picaresque figure in the collection of legends known as “The Little Flowers of St. Francis.” Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In some ways, it’s a familiar tale: a lone radical’s picaresque journey through a repressive society ripe for revolution. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 Other scenes along this picaresque adventure are “as vague as the horse’s dream.” In Hunt’s ‘Neverhome,’ natural poetry from a young wife who fights for the Union After many picaresque, darkly humorous, gleefully described humiliations and tragedies, Candide comes to believe that people must not just accept reality but work to improve it: “We must cultivate our garden.” Kelsey Grammer and Christine Ebersole take the L.A. Opera stage for 'Candide' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The buddy-road-movie is a sort of anti-genre, like the picaresque in literature, useful as much as anything for what it lets you leave out. Film-makers need to trust the audience 2013-05-24T13:00:01Z From this slim real-life footnote, Harris develops a marvelously harrowing, thrillingly picaresque tale of two brothers, Emile and Lucien, and their journey into the heart of darkness. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z He suggested that the touring experience, for all its picaresque charm, would also supply Spencer with order and structure. Jeff Tweedy, of Wilco, Records With His Son Spencer 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Like its groundbreaking predecessor, “Subsequent Moviefilm” is a raunchy, sharply political picaresque through the American heartland. Perspective | Movies are rushing to impact the election. Don’t ask whether they’ll work. Ask whether they’ll last. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Droll and fanciful, it is a picaresque tale with a mischievously understated attitude. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z A taxi driver named Fly, born to circus performers and then orphaned, narrates this picaresque novel set during a carnival. Neil Gaiman’s ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane,’ and More 2013-06-26T18:50:28Z Many of these — such as her breakthrough novel “Primeval and Other Times,” which was published in Poland in 1996 — have been written in the picaresque tradition and reflect the upheavals of Polish history. Olga Tokarczuk’s Book ‘Flights’ Is Taking Off 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Taking rich, handsome, ruthless gangsters and surgically removing every ounce of their picaresque charisma might be a worthy pursuit, but it’s not much to look at. Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z This lethal picaresque ends with him giving food to a Jew who is going to the gas chamber later that day. Chris Power 2011-08-25T11:15:00Z This “absorbing” biography of the first Black American fighter pilot “reads like a picaresque novel,” our reviewer, Thomas E. Ricks, noted. New in Paperback: ‘All Blood Runs Red’ and ‘Frankissstein’ 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Not just bricks, but punches, and worse: Astbury's story is by turns picaresque and plain grotesque. The Cult: 'We're the Fulham of rock music' 2012-08-23T19:00:03Z The situation sets him off on a picaresque journey, the purpose of which becomes clear in the film's end. "The Painted Bird" is a brutal masterpiece depicting the horrors and inhumanity of war 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z A comment on the innately human desire for companionship, the story is a “picaresque parable,” A.H. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Honeyland’ and ‘Accept the Call’ 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s interesting to imagine an alternative history of African-American fiction in which this wild, satirical and pathbreaking feminist picaresque caught the ride it deserved in the culture. Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The picaresque structure could work in novels, like Huckleberry Finn, but movies of the time demanded the freight train of narrative. On the Road: Sex, Drugs and Kristen Stewart 2012-12-20T16:00:10Z “Precision Last”? “Not Normal”? Is it “Alice in Wonderland,” as his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, implied to the journalist Bob Woodward — a bizarre, whipsawing picaresque? The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z His book is a multicultural picaresque, a search both worldly and internal that will take him to Honolulu, Jakarta, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Nairobi and his ancestral village of Kogelo. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Her assurance is most striking in two contrasting songs about self-discovery, New York City and Things Change: the former a ribald picaresque, the latter suffused with regret, set to bruised piano and quivering cymbals. Caitlin Rose: Own Side Now 2010-08-05T21:45:00Z On one level, this oddball cast of characters simply represents the joys of the picaresque novel, in which the author’s set design is intentionally surreal and ironic. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z And Shield’s journey — which, given the gravity of the movie’s subject, flirts weirdly with the picaresque — moves with dispatch. ‘Emperor’ Review: A Once-Enslaved Man Has a Date With Destiny 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The author is by turns plaintive and picaresque. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z There have been plenty of picaresquely dissolute designers since Brownjohn, but few with his élan. Design: The Man Who Broke the Record on 'Let It Bleed' 2011-12-11T14:01:00Z Well, it’s among Mr. Carey’s achievements that this plump and well-researched biography sits lightly in the lap; it reads like a picaresque novel. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z “Better Call Saul” is a more fun, picaresque show than “Breaking Bad,” but it’s every bit as moral, a travelogue of the smooth-paved desert road to perdition. Review: ‘Better Call Saul,’ Quirky and Absorbing in Season Opener 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z On his centennial birthday, a retired munitions man escapes his nursing home and goes on a picaresque journey that recalls other moments of his eventful life. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z “Bullard’s absorbing story … reads like a picaresque novel,” Thomas E. Ricks writes in his latest roundup of military books. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Or maybe it wants to be a more picaresque version of House, with a little less genius and a little more self-degradation. TV Tonight: Rake 2014-01-23T14:29:22Z But he was also, as this show asserts, a kind of working-class hero, whose rakish tastes and picaresque exploits only became possible as an old social order began to give way. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z One cannot help but wonder how the novel might have taken shape had this strange second point of view been allowed to flower, perhaps in running counterpoint to the oneiric picaresque of the main narrative. ‘Beatlebone’ review: What does John Lennon need to find his muse again? 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z He sketches out a novel he’ll never write, “A New Slain Knight,” calling it a “picaresque novel for America” that will follow his protagonist through a prison escape, a bank robbery and noirish double-crosses. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z But this novel, from the author of “On Such a Full Sea,” is more than a high-octane picaresque: It’s also an examination of cultural identity and belonging. 13 New Books to Watch For in February 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z And to European eyes certain types of Mexican portraits — of nuns wearing hand-painted badges like breastplates, and arriviste urban matrons showing off their wealth — must have had a picaresque appeal. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The New York-based Carey was shortlisted for Parrot and Olivier in America, his sprawling, funny account of a French aristocrat and his English servant's picaresque journey to 19th century America. Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist 2010-09-07T19:22:00Z It’s unabashed kitsch, but it serves the needs of the song, a missing-persons picaresque whose chorus hinges on the phrase “answering machine.” The Playlist: Metallica Flickers Back to Life, and Tayla Struts Into the Spotlight 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z He is 76 and describes himself as “a picaresque guy” from New Orleans, with artistic tendencies that he channeled into a career as a merchant. Is This the Best-Kept Secret in Fashion? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The book is at once a picaresque tale of Barry's travels and a domestic novel of his wife Seema's simultaneous odyssey on the home front. “America is becoming more like Russia” says Russian-born novelist Gary Shteyngart 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, published in 1836-37, was Dickens’ first novel, though “picaresque romp” is a more accurate description of its structure. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 7: The Pickwick Papers 2012-01-30T18:40:16Z There’s only a little time left to invest in a ticket to Bruce Norris’s picaresque about free-market capitalism. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The strongest aspect of this marvellous film is that Langan never lets it become simply a picaresque portrait of charming incompetence, comic corruption and exotic scenery. African Railway and The Edible Guardian 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z It’s a picaresque by a poet more concerned with notating startling moments than crafting a multibraided saga. Review | Roberto Bolaño’s popularity surged after his death. What does a ‘new’ book do for his legacy? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z And at this point I felt the novel move from picaresque to fable; suddenly it's not possible to separate this family drama from our own, or that of a much wider world. 'Imperfect Birds': Anne Lamott's novel of flirting with addiction 2010-04-07T22:27:00Z France Voltaire Zadig or the Book of Fate Dee This is the most rocambolesque journey of a colourful picaresque character to whom so much happens in one page you are dizzy from the adventure. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z First performed in 1910 when Massenet was 67, it's a folktalelike distillation of Cervantes' epic-length picaresque novel, in which the aging title character is inspired to feats of fantastical derring-do thanks to too much reading. Sara de Luis garnishes Seattle Opera's 'Don Quixote' with classic Spanish dance 2011-02-18T22:03:30Z “Better Call Saul” can stand with the original “Breaking Bad” because the prequel developed its own picaresque story and voice. ‘Dexter’ and the Shows That Wouldn’t Die 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Even better is Higgs Boson Blues, a mordantly witty picaresque fable that runs the lyrical gamut from Lucifer to Robert Johnson and Hannah Montana. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – review 2013-02-11T12:19:50Z Chang-rae Lee’s new novel is part folk tale, part picaresque adventure, part dystopian satire. Books of The Times: ‘On Such a Full Sea,’ Chang-rae Lee’s Tale of Dystopia 2014-01-13T20:24:34Z The book draws from the omnivorous taste of its creator: Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Schopenhauer, leavened by the picaresque tradition of Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Firmly anchored as it is in reality, it isn't above using the heightening devices of romance and picaresque. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-01-31T07:01:01Z Possessing a strikingly pellucid tone, Fort was at her most arresting on her longest pieces, the power ballad "Minnesota," the quicksilver soundscape "Some" and particularly the picaresque "Something 'Bout Camels." Portland Jazz fest wraps Friday-Sunday with Regina Carter and others 2011-02-24T21:50:14Z A runaway Roma slave becomes the subject of a manhunt in this picaresque road film, set in early 19th-century Romania. Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Because, without it, instead of a picaresque odyssey with an unconventional hero, it would just be a journalistic expose of military folly. The Men Who Stare at Goats: blink and you'll mistake it for reality 2010-04-21T12:04:00Z A gifted, relentless self-promoter, he devoted his picaresque life to convincing people that he, as visionary truth-teller, would repeatedly rise from life’s devastations to triumph over the opprobrium of a blinkered society. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z But picaresque fantasies aside, there were times, he said, that the enterprise was “deadening.” ArtsBeat: John Waters Tries Some Desperate Living on a Cross-Country Hitchhiking Odyssey 2012-05-25T13:29:55Z Street’s picaresque stunts, and occasional incarcerations, do not occur in a vacuum. ‘Chameleon Street’: The Art of the Con 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo A sweet, shambling poem to the tenacity of hope and the sustaining power of friendship, “Hunter Gatherer” joins two luckless strivers on a picaresque journey to nowhere. Review: ‘Hunter Gatherer’ Profiles Two Men Living on the Margins 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Imagine Voltaire's Candide with the hero rewritten as a reckless entrepreneur rather than a feckless innocent, or a picaresque fable by Henry Fielding transplanted to America between 1759 and 1776, and you get the picture. The Low Road – review 2013-03-28T12:01:43Z The most arresting memoirs bring Aha! moments while entertaining with a picaresque adventure. 'Wild': blisters and redemption on the Pacific Crest Trail 2012-03-14T19:57:04Z On Christmas Eve 1932, they leave their watering hole in the West 40s to embark on a picaresque journey to Pennsylvania — these three are always on the run from something or someone. Review: ‘Three Wise Guys,’ Spreading Good Cheer and Stumbling Into Trouble 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The key line in “The Thing,” uttered in the aftermath of a particularly gruesome metamorphosis, was a profane version of “you’ve got to be kidding me,” an acknowledgment joining shock and awe with picaresque slapstick. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “It was outstanding,” Mr. Allman said, praising Mr. Richards’s book for mixing picaresque episodes and musicological lore. Pop: Gregg Allman and Other Pop Memoirists 2012-07-27T16:00:00Z According to a news release from Atria, the novel “tells the picaresque story of Bob Honey, a middle-aged, divorced, disillusioned man living in a nondescript house on a nondescript street in Woodview,California.” Sean Penn will publish his first novel, 'Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,' next year 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Roof of the world: a volcano is just one stop in Carson's picaresque adventure. Red Doc› by Anne Carson – review 2013-06-30T15:00:00Z Slotting a thesis about modern capitalism into the picaresque 17th-century adventures of a servant "named after the bush he'd been whelped under" doesn't bespeak subtlety. The Trade Secret by Robert Newman – review 2013-06-07T17:35:01Z She worked for years on a picaresque, autobiographical novel that eventually became “She Drove Without Stopping,” published by Algonquin in 1990, but only after she agreed to cut it substantially. Writer Races to Victory From Way Off the Pace 2010-12-16T21:39:33Z The novel turns picaresque when Anna is whisked away to Hollywood on the thin pretense of an Ayn Rand television show. A 'canceled' author falls for a cringe icon in 'The Book of Ayn' (Rand, of course) 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Ninety-five years later, the novelist Miguel de Cervantes put this adventure novel on the imagined bookshelf of his gallant picaresque dreamer, Don Quixote de la Mancha — a true Californian if ever there was one. Patt Morrison: How California got its good name — a 1500s novel and scores of fascinating people 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z “Three frenzied but unhurried hours” of “emotional annihilation” of a “battered, petrified soul” on “the bleakest of picaresque journeys.” Feedback: Readers weigh in on 'The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf' 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z A crisis takes her on a frightening, picaresque odyssey across Southern California, including an encounter with an undocumented teenage girl that every legislator in Washington should read. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Fiction 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z So begins the picaresque journey of this deeply endearing, often frustrating man who does his best to heal others even while nursing his own despair with opium. Review | ‘The World and All That It Holds’ lives up to its sweeping title 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z “Scars” is reminiscent of Amos Tutuola’s “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” — a picaresque hallucination in which one horror stumbles into another in a jumble of supernatural confusion. In a Korean author's U.S. debut, uncanny pleasures rear their ugly heads 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Or at least, that’s the most generous reading of this perverse picaresque. Review | ‘Bones and All’: All shock and no value 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z At least twice the book nods in the direction of Cervantes, who surely learned, by putting his Quixote through so many perils, that the picaresque carries perils of its own. Review | In ‘Less Is Lost,’ a lovable, hapless hero returns 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Of course, in his picaresque travelogue of Texan political activism, O’Rourke is also telling his own story — as a careful listener and tireless avatar of all those who have fought against injustice, past and present. Review | Beto O’Rourke’s book spotlights Texans’ struggles for voting rights 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The title branding tells a story of that picaresque progress. Chelsea v Liverpool: Carabao Cup final – live! 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z That notion of American openness, of ever-fractalizing free will, coming up against the fickle realities of fate is the tension that powers Towles’ exciting, entertaining and sometimes implausible picaresque. How Amor Towles' quintessential American roadtrip novel interrogates itself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z “We still cling with parts of our minds to the infantile belief that the world was made for our gratification and pleasure,” Mr. Johnson declared, in words that could apply to his own picaresque past. Boris Johnson Cuts a Colorful Swath in U.S., but to What End? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z There are picaresque detours, slapstick-heavy set pieces and a thick veneer of corporate-culture satire, mostly aimed at the Great Beyond’s overseers, each one a marvel of translucent forms and squiggly lines. Review: It's not quite 'Inside Out,' but Pixar's metaphysical comedy 'Soul' will lift your spirits 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z After watching “On the Rocks,” Sofia Coppola’s latest urban picaresque, all I had was a blank page. Review | ‘On the Rocks’ has all the right ingredients: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Sofia Coppola. But it’s a flavorless dish. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The result is a deeply moving picaresque in which Veselka examines conditionality as a state of being. When the universe curses you back: a razor-sharp novel about a road-trip to acceptance 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z A shaggy, sprawling, picaresque tale, with one brief detour into time-traveling fantasy fiction, it certainly has its moments. David Mitchell’s hyped-up ‘Utopia Avenue,’ an ode to the music scene of the late 1960s, falls a bit flat 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “The True Story of Ah Q” by Lu Xun This satirical, picaresque and ultimately bleak story describes the misadventures of the everyman Ah Q, whose triumphs always transform into defeats. Short and sweet: the best stories to read right now 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z “The Trip to Greece” begins in media res, with the duo discussing the impending picaresque over an alfresco lunch. Review | Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon delight, in the brilliant and affecting ‘The Trip to Greece’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Like “Lock, Stock,” it’s an intricately structured picaresque tale featuring a rogue’s gallery of British crooks falling afoul of one another. ‘The Gentlemen’ review: Lock, stock and a barrel of bloody good fun 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The Truce even takes on a picaresque quality, with its hero providing a rich variety of wry character sketches and fascinated depictions of lands and peoples. The Truce: how Primo Levi rediscovered humanity after Auschwitz 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Jimmie and Mont may be reserved on the surface, but they are also unwitting folk heroes in a contemporary urban picaresque. Review: 'The Last Black Man in San Francisco' is a gorgeous, moving ode to a city in flux 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z In 1976, Wertmüller became the first woman to receive an Academy Award nomination, for directing the picaresque film “Seven Beauties,” which also earned her an original screenplay nod. Geena Davis, David Lynch, Lina Wertmüller and Wes Studi to receive honorary Oscars 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Even on something as downbeat as The Hitter, there is a picaresque quality that relates back not just to Nebraska, but to the very early Springsteen records. Bruce Springsteen's albums – ranked! 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Even the Times says the disclosures do not "offer a fundamentally new narrative of his picaresque career." Is it huge news that Trump once lost money and took tax writeoffs? 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Seattle Times reviewer Michael Upchurch wrote, “Edugyan is a marvelous writer — lyrical, fanciful, subtle, fond of paradox — and ‘Washington Black’ reads like a picaresque epic laced with persistent threat.” Paperback Picks: books by Michael Ondaatje, Esi Edugyan and more 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Given that Banks’s business life has been picaresque, and his financial history opaque, many questions may never be fully answered. The Chaotic Triumph of Arron Banks, the “Bad Boy of Brexit” 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z His most exuberant role, which vaulted him to stardom, came in “Tom Jones,” based on Henry Fielding’s picaresque novel. Albert Finney, whose bawdy role in ‘Tom Jones’ earned him the first of five Oscar nominations, dies at 82 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Because a popular and picaresque county fair was in progress, all the hotels were booked and she’d had to sleep in her car, which she could at least park on a quiet street. “Acceptance Journey” 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The judges called the book “a funny, efficiently-rendered picaresque tale” that “superbly traces the hero’s psychic collapse.” Alain Mabanckou’s novel ‘Black Moses’ wins 2018 Hurston/Wright fiction award 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves was the biggest showstopper of all, a gargantuan chorus tied to a fabulous example of the lost art of tale-telling songwriting – the pop song as picaresque short story. Cher's 30 greatest songs – ranked! 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z A schematically familiar but gently funny picaresque reminiscent of “True Grit” and other mission-driven adventures, this adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s novel doesn’t necessarily break new ground. Review | Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly’s new western has bloody violence and suffering. But it also has sweetness. 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z A grim morality tale or a shambling picaresque? Review: John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix play 'The Sisters Brothers' in a soulful, stirring comic western 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Edugyan is a marvelous writer — lyrical, fanciful, subtle, fond of paradox — and “Washington Black” reads like a picaresque epic laced with persistent threat. ‘Washington Black’: Esi Edugyan’s epic slave tale soars 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Stormy’s “5,500 words of cray” were eventually published in January, and mark her emergence as a hilariously affectless picaresque heroine. Death by sex and television? It’s how Trump would want to go | Marina Hyde 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z And yet, at the center of this oddly riveting little picaresque is a performance of such quiet power by Plummer — as an antihero rash and precociously resourceful — that it’s easy to overlook the film’s flaws. Review | ‘Lean on Pete’ is a deceptively simple road movie about the search for family 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Rock’s picaresque past — the boozing and brawling and sex-drenched headlines — is not the least off-putting, she said. Violence! Sex! Defiance! Trump's over-the-top presidency has changed the rules for prospective candidates 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Some critics accused him of recycling his picaresque plots and ideas, which at times seemed to verge on the nihilistic. J.P. Donleavy, best-selling author of ‘The Ginger Man,’ dies at 91 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z “Less” is a picaresque novel in a whimsical vein, sometimes sharp and sometimes silly. Hapless hero travels the world in novel about settling for ‘Less’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z It is named after Leopold Bloom, whom the book follows on a daylong picaresque voyage through Dublin, Joyce’s hometown. Donald Trump, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ‘All Eyez on Me’: Your Friday Briefing 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Updike helped map what later became known as “Cheever country”: the white, affluent, suburban landscape of stunted hopes and spiritual anomie through which Harry Angstrom will take his picaresque journey. John Updike’s Rabbit, Run – another American story of men escaping women 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z He likes a culinary picaresque, and often takes the kids. The Most Adventurous Eater in America 2009-11-01T04:00:00Z The story is a picaresque, half revelling in the chaos, and alive to the thought of a future seeded with hope, whereas the residents of “Graduation” have either given up or caved in. The Controversial, American “Ghost in the Shell” 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z He has been called “the godfather of gangsta rap”, but really his songs were picaresque narratives that proved inspirational to everyone from Snoop Dogg and Notorious BIG to Danny Brown. Slick Rick: ‘You learn from prison time – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z After a long apprenticeship, an American picaresque that encompassed a flop in California, he was signed by Columbia Records. A whole damn city crying 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Liverpool tend to carry a sense of place with them through these picaresque European campaigns. Sevilla’s knowhow leaves the Liverpool Europa League party to fall flat | Barney Ronay 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z After Karadžić arrived in Serbia, the picaresque tale became even more bizarre. The hunt for Radovan Karadžić, ruthless warlord turned ‘spiritual healer’ 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Much of the comedy and poignancy of the picaresque story has to do with Jed’s failure to rise to the challenge of this rather exalted notion of identity. Novels of Desire 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z His third feature, and the first to receive theatrical release in the U.S., is a wickedly droll, picaresque tale. 'Aferim!' is a wickedly droll ride into Romania's feudal past 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Those flickering smoky interiors, enormous woolly coats and bloody, ax-heavy battles; the remarkable décolletage, the picaresque foliage and mud. BBC's 'Last Kingdom' brings complexity and personality to the Middle Ages 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z This great American picaresque isn’t especially heavy on narrative force so it remains to be seen how playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and director David Esbjornson will propel the Big Easy action along. Fall theater preview: big names aren't just for Broadway this year 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z "Public Morals," which premieres Tuesday on TNT, is a picaresque, briskly written and quickly captivating series that is neither afraid nor ashamed of entertaining its audience. TNT's fine 'Public Morals' sets itself apart from cop dramas 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z As detailed in Tom Rubython's picaresque biography Shunt, the Briton broke off from practice at the title-deciding Japanese Grand Prix of 1976 to open his overalls and urinate in front of a packed grandstand. Have stars lost touch with reality? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z For hikers seeking further adventure, the trail splits and leads for 2 miles to picaresque Avalanche Lake. Adventure ideas for 2015: Montana has so much to offer 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z “Blue,” a film about the confusions particular to grief, was followed by the picaresque romance “White.” Inner Worlds: Home | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The game and the player are conspiring to write a book – a picaresque narrative guided but never derailed by the game’s systems. '80 Days' Review: A Pocket-Sized Journey Around The World 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Seemingly unaware that some people might view such legerdemain as a lapse in his world-renowned personal character, Eisenhower later reminisced about the episode as if it were a youthful picaresque caprice. Eisenhower’s Baseball Secret 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z It’s an American iconographic–it’s in our DNA, these slightly picaresque figures who built this country that inspired the show for me. Making History: A Q&A with Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner 2014-03-27T13:21:51Z As in England, American cards were largely secular affairs: nativity scenes did feature, but they were outnumbered by picaresque frosty landscapes, robin redbreasts and ivy. An Ode to Holiday Letter-Writing 2013-12-25T05:01:31Z Baiting Europe’s second-largest oil producer, a company that had $376 billion in revenue last year, has become a picaresque form of entertainment in some Gulf precincts. How BP Got Screwed on Gulf Oil Spill Claims 2013-06-27T09:43:16Z In the wake of Profumo’s resignation, it seems clear that the role of Stephen Ward wanders into the picaresque. The Profumo Affair, Revisited 2013-04-15T08:45:00Z Mr. Courtenay’s own tale was something of a picaresque; he has said “The Power of One” was drawn from his own life. Bryce Courtenay, Australian Novelist, Dies at 79 2012-11-24T03:27:24Z The film breathlessly chronicles every misstep and triumphant comeback of Mr. Clinton’s picaresque career in order to rue the damage his lifelong recklessness did to his reputation and his legacy. The TV Watch: ?Clinton? on PBS Shows an Era That Feels Close Yet So Far 2012-02-19T21:53:20Z For this work he took as his model the picaresque romances of Spain, already to some extent known in Germany. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z But near by lives a distinguished lady of romantic picaresque tastes, who dotes on street pianos, and attracts them as wasps are attracted to a jar of jam. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Now in picaresque novels, we were always meeting people who did that sort of thing; but they were not gentlemen. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z It also may probably be traced to Spanish influence, that is to say, to the picaresque romances which the 16th and 17th centuries produced in Spain in large numbers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Don Quixote had been partly 790 translated early in the 17th century, the picaresque romance had found its way to Germany at a still earlier date; while H.M. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The picaresque in Major Clancie, too, is more readily identifiable than in The Notorious Impostor. The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus 2011-09-25T02:00:17.053Z But it was well worth while having it all over again with the intricate and picaresque embroidery of a tongue far mightier than the pen hitherto employed upon the incident. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z For example, Le Sage levied upon the Spanish playwrights for many of the characters and the situations he needed, for his rambling, picaresque novels, 'Gil Blas' and its sister stories. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Next we come to a rule which would handicap vastly any attempt to reproduce Stevenson or any other lover of the picaresque upon the screen. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z The English adjective picaresque is conventionally applied to a certain class of Spanish story of low life and sharp practice relieved by humour. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z The different accounts forcefully demonstrate how criminal fiction allied itself with both biography and the picaresque. The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus 2011-09-25T02:00:17.053Z Neil Young praised Mr. Waits — who growls poetic, picaresque songs full of lowlife characters and deep romance — as a performer, singer, actor, magician, spirit guide and changeling. Rock ?n? Rollers Salute Their Own 2011-03-15T04:55:03Z From reporting sensations and chronicling faits divers, Defoe worked his way almost insensibly to the Spanish tale of the old Mendoza or picaresque pattern. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Jack, an entertaining picaresque romance by Defoe, 127.Comedies of Shakespeare, 19.Comte, Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z After the Tales of Chivalry came the Novelas de Picaros, picaresque novels we have called these Tales of Roguery in English. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z But the picaresque traditions have shaded into one another. The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus 2011-09-25T02:00:17.053Z He left school to work for The Sydney Daily Telegraph, and from then on his life story became increasingly picaresque. Murray Sayle, Reporter and Adventurer, Is Dead at 84 2010-09-27T02:49:00Z She lightens up along with the film, as it moves into the relative freedom and luxury of Israel and takes on a picaresque Bonnie-and-Clyde feeling. | 'Salt of This Sea': Exploring the Israel-Palestine Standoff 2010-08-13T04:10:00Z People may not like the way he plays the game but football is about taking advantage a lot of the time, about being picaresque. World Cup final: Spain team pen pics 2010-07-09T20:00:00Z The picaresque novels were rather naturalistic studies from low life. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z But the narratives also look backward to an older type, the picaresque. The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus 2011-09-25T02:00:17.053Z Indeed it was this sympathy with the picaresque side of life, this thorough understanding of the gypsy temperament, that gives Borrow’s genius its unique distinction. The Vagabond in Literature The treasure story must have the picaresque flavor or at least concern itself with bold deeds done by strong men in days gone by. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day It belongs to that class of novel known as picaresque—romances of adventures and battles. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 In Spain St. Teresa and the great mystical writers were compensating for the triviality and worse of the picaresque romances and the tales of chivalry. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z He was as utterly picaresque as the work itself; he reincarnated the spirit of Gil Blas; indeed, a new quality crept into stage expression through this characterization. Interpreters In his characterization he is at his best—like Scott and Borrow—when dealing with the picaresque elements in life. The Vagabond in Literature He was a picaresque hero, the young rebel, for he grew enmeshed in murder and in love, in the toils of what England called justice in days when the Regent went to Brighton. A Novelist on Novels It might be called, without too much affectation, an adjustment of the picaresque novel to dreamland, retaining frequent touches of solid and everyday fact. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) His picaresque novel, "Jack Wilton"—Scenes and characters—Observation of nature—Dramatic and melodramatic parts—Historical personages—Nash's troubles on account of "Jack Wilton." The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Mr. Kipling's "Kim," which is picaresque in structure, shows us nearly every aspect of the labyrinthine life of India. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews In the first place he had the faculty for seizing upon p. 67the picturesque and picaresque elements in the world about him. The Vagabond in Literature He has taken a rascal for the hero of his picaresque and rattling romance. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Mr. Kipling’s “Kim,” which is picaresque in structure, shows us nearly every aspect of the labyrinthine life of India. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Works of this kind took for the most part the shape to which has been applied the name of picaresque. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare He thought to see a Circe of picaresque Spain with her swinish rout about her. The Spanish Jade Mention has been made of Borrow’s feeling for the picaresque elements in life. The Vagabond in Literature Spain is the home of that type of novel which the pigeonhole-makers have named picaresque. Rosinante to the Road Again The author had evidently read his Pigault and adopted that writer's revised picaresque scheme. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Piers, according to the picaresque traditions, had been the servant of many masters; he tells his experience of them in the first person, following also in this the rules of the picaresque tale. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare It was the theatre in which were enacted innumerable picaresque comedies and romantic plays, with figures ranging from Sancho Panza to Sam Weller. What I Saw in America Here again, of course, the picaresque model comes in, and there is a good deal of directly borrowed matter. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Here was a picaresque romance which allured the methodical barrister and Councilor and he was as boyishly excited as his nephew. Blackbeard: Buccaneer The "heroic" succumbs to a similar fate rather fatally, though the heroic element itself comes slightly to the rescue; and even the picaresque by no means escapes. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Grobianism differs from the picaresque tale by the absence of a story connecting the various scenes, but it resembles it in the opportunity it affords for describing a variety of characters, humours, and places. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare A comic, convivial, burlesque or picaresque literature became, as it were, a parody of the literature of preciosity. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. This is at once a practical protest against the common interpretation and extension of Aristotle's prescription of "distinguished" subjects, and an unmistakable relinquishment of mere picaresque squalor. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 There were in Germany popular tales which were picaresque novels in embryo. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Nobody can say that the picaresque novelists, whether in their original country or when the fashion had spread, were given to berquinades or fairy-tales. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century His romance, written in the form of memoirs, according to the usual rule of the picaresque, is dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, under whose patronage Shakespeare had already placed his "Venus and Adonis." The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare The artist's picaresque burin had made Robespierre as hideous as possible. The Gods are Athirst The Spanish picaresque romance was not in itself a very great literary kind; but it had in it a great faculty of emancipation. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The picaresque novels do not deal with love, but with intrigues for material gain in the widest sense. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Scarron himself has a good deal of it; in fact there is so much in the Spanish picaresque novel that it could not be absent from the followings thereof. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Grobianism and the picaresque novel, long survived both Nash and Dekker. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare His stories are often of the picaresque type; a name given to a kind of story in which the hero is an adventurer, sometimes a rogue. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Inasmuch, however, as it is a drama of English rustic life, it is directly antecedent to Mother Bombie, and perhaps also to the picaresque novel. John Lyly A variety of the picaresque species was the "books of beggars." Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Up to this point in Dickens’s development, his novel, however true, is still picaresque; his hero never really rests anywhere in the story. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens In the works of Nash and his imitators, the different parts are badly dovetailed; the novelist is incoherent and incomplete; the fault lies in some degree with the picaresque form itself. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare The result was that “the long-talked-of autobiography” disappointed those who expected more than a collection of bold picaresque sketches. George Borrow The Man and His Books Borrow has not of set purpose adopted the picaresque form: search his pages where you will, you will find not a trace of such an intention. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 Le Sage set the model of the picaresque novel, and Mark Twain followed his example; but the American book is richer than the French—deeper, finer, stronger. Inquiries and Opinions We may repeat that the matter is picaresque. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Land ... sea ... everything ... become a great adventurer like my favourite heroes in the picaresque novels of Le Sage, Defoe, Smollett and Fielding? Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Any attempt to revive in this way the old picaresque methods could only amount to a virtual repudiation of statutory international law, which would bring its own retribution. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy The tone of the Spanish and French picaresque novel had never been high: but it is curiously degraded in this English example. The English Novel It is a picaresque novel, written by a sportsman. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance A picaresque novel is only a very eventful biography; but the opening of Bleak House is quite another business altogether. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens His humour, it must be admitted, is akin to the picaresque. Old and New Masters Moreover, for home waters at least, the conditions which favoured this picaresque warfare no longer exist. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy The fact seems to be that Smollett had run his picaresque vein dry, as far as it connected itself with mere rascality of various kinds, and he did well to close it. The English Novel His square face was confident, his foxy mustache was picaresque. Main Street Let me tell you what I really think: the picaresque life is the only life. The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself He was more picaresque than picturesque; folk imagination gave him notoriety. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations It was a fitting sequel to the picaresque adventure and he anticipated much entertainment from meeting her, saw himself, with stealthy adroitness, worming his way toward her guilty secrets. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative. The English Novel As a poet he is a dilettante, and his claim to greatness lies in the brilliant and audacious humour of his 'picaresque novel'. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal So the picaresque life is more leisurely than the life of kings, emperors, and popes. The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself The picaresque method consisted in delineating the habits of outcasts, bohemians, spongers, swindlers, and vagrants. Initiation into Literature He produced an amazing variety of wares: newspapers, magazines, ghost stories, biographies, journals, memoirs, satires, picaresque romances, essays on religion, reform, trade, projects,—in all more than two hundred works. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Now the picaresque method is not exactly untrue to ordinary life: on the contrary, as we have seen, it was a powerful schoolmaster to bring the novel thereto. The English Novel Defoe's fictions, picaresque tales of adventure, come still closer, but lack the deeper artistic and moral purpose and treatment suggested a moment ago. A History of English Literature It initiated a new genre of writing called the "picaresque." The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself Defoe's romances of incident were the triumphant culmination of the picaresque type; Mrs. Haywood's sentimental tales were in many respects mere vague inchoations of a form as yet to be produced. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood One might suppose, if one took this picaresque record seriously, that a large section of our country was peopled wholly by knaves and fools. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived This is, to a great extent, a reaction or relapse towards the picaresque style. The English Novel Of the succeeding realists the most important is Tobias Smollett, a Scottish ex-physician of violent and brutal nature, who began to produce his picaresque stories of adventure during the lifetime of Fielding. A History of English Literature In relying for interest more on adventure than on the drawing of character, he reverts to the picaresque type of story. Halleck's New English Literature His picaresque characters, though outwardly rogues or their female counterparts, have at bottom something of the dissenting parson and cool-headed, middle-aged man of business. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood Without any particular ability, he models his novels on Don Quixote, and the result is simply a series of coarse adventures which are characteristic of the picaresque novel of his age. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World As far as mere plot goes, he enters into no competition whatever with either Fielding or Richardson: the picaresque model did not require that he should. The English Novel His structure is that of the rambling picaresque story of adventure, not lacking, in his case, in definite progress toward a clearly-designed end, but admitting many digressions and many really irrelevant elements. A History of English Literature And yet in the light of Mark Twain's later writings one cannot but see in that picaresque romance, with its pleasingly loose moral atmosphere, an underlying seriousness and conviction. Mark Twain The almost forgotten story of Benjamin's birth was remembered and sent out upon the winds of scandal in picaresque and incredible forms. Tales of the Jazz Age But when he saw Big Business glorified by a humorous melodrama, then The Job appeared to him as picaresque adventure, and he was in peril of his imagination. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man It is quite openly a picaresque novel: and imitated not merely from the Spanish originals but from Sorel's Francion, which had appeared in France some forty years before. The English Novel Fielding's influence shows also in the free-and-easy picaresque structure of his plots; though this results also in part from his desultory method of composition. A History of English Literature Why not drift on in a series of accidents-like a picaresque novel? Women in Love When Mr. Roosevelt was in the White House the Typical American was gay, robustious, full of the joy of living, an expansive spirit from the frontier, a picaresque twentieth century middle class Cavalier. The Mirrors of Washington It was a chronicle of Christian enterprise served up with sauce picaresque. The Life of George Borrow Even regarded as an early attempt in the "picaresque" manner, it is abortive and only half organised. The English Novel For ten years Thackeray's production was mainly in the line of satirical humorous and picaresque fiction, none of it of the first rank. A History of English Literature Here and in many other places we also see the origin of that "picaresque" literature which arose in Spain and overran Europe; and which begat Le Moyen de Parvenir. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 The first draft of "The Island Pharisees" was buried in a drawer; when retrieved the other day, after nineteen years, it disclosed a picaresque string of anecdotes told by Ferrand in the first person. Villa Rubein, and other stories The daring chapters of Michael Scott's picaresque romance of the tropics were that telescope and that window. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments It does not derive from the romantic novel which immediately preceded that: the novel, large or little, as it was with Cervantes, Hurtado de Mendoza, Quevedo, and the masters of picaresque fiction. Dona Perfecta Moreover, Dickens often follows the eighteenth-century picaresque habit of tracing the histories of his heroes from birth to marriage. A History of English Literature Babbitt was an official delegate; another was Cecil Rountree, whom Babbitt admired for his picaresque speculative building, and hated for his social position, for being present at the smartest dances on Royal Ridge. Babbitt |
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