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How to use picaresque in a sentence

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The latter are allowed to take their course like diminutive picaresque novels.
His coolly rationalist approach to religion was complemented by an excitable temperament and a taste for the picaresque.
Reassessing the archival records in EMA, Arenas rewrites Mier's life in his own fantasized, creative, hallucinatory, baroque picaresque fashion.
The picaresque novels of the seventeenth century can count as forerunners as well.
The author treats these themes linearly, but with an episodic structure similar to that of the picaresque novel.
Appropriately enough, it makes this transition within what we might think of as a picaresque interruption of the picturesque travel experience.
I had been fascinated by the idea of this magical clown, and it eventually found its way into my picaresque novel Baudolino.
It is the picaresque story of an Irish adventurer who unconsciously reveals his villainy while attempting self-justification.
Another structural characteristic of the picaresque novel is the education of the young rogue, which frequently coincides with his servitude.
Juan's picaresque adventures in a wide variety of European contexts see him constantly dealing with disappointment and disillusionment.
Besides creating a literary genre, the picaresque novel, the book is like a mural depicting a society and an era.
Many theorists have chosen to restrict the picaresque and the baroque to specific time periods.
This became my first comic novel, my first picaresque novel, my first epic novel, a genre I had been wanting to plunge into for a long time.
Even the longer works are essentially episodic and picaresque, rather than symbolic or abstract, at least in compositional categories.
Mier's Apologia frequently approximates the picaresque narrative's structure and thematics, and it reveals a baroque style.
Such recurrent encounters are typical of the picaresque, whose protagonists often meet their opponents again and again.
It is more a picaresque novel with the journey motif at the centre and fantasy thrown in for spice.
A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler.
The place was teeming with life in all its clamorous glory, and it seemed I had stumbled upon a picaresque underworld where everyone had escaped from a Dickens yarn.
Hence the book's picaresque quality — it is a string of anecdotes — and also, at times, a certain patness in the comedy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There were in Germany popular tales which were picaresque novels in embryo.
Here again, of course, the picaresque model comes in, and there is a good deal of directly borrowed matter.
His square face was confident, his foxy mustache was picaresque.
The artist's picaresque burin had made Robespierre as hideous as possible.
Then there were some of the writers of the picaresque novels.
But the narratives also look backward to an older type, the picaresque.
He has taken a rascal for the hero of his picaresque and rattling romance.
On one level, this is a standard picaresque tale of a con man, but beneath the farce is a profound examination of immigration, and the lengths people go to for a better life.
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