The picaresque novel is an example of such a genre.

It's all very whimsical, but that, of course, is what a picaresque novel can be.

"The Tables" is not so much a political tract as the equivalent of a picaresque novel.

The picaresque novel and the soap opera are open-ended forms.

Scott does, however, attempt to be comic, or at least to follow the conventions of the picaresque novel.

It is a picaresque novel, and as such may seem uncharacteristically lighthearted given its subject matter.

Typical of a picaresque novel, there is a wide range of characters but few central ones.

The picaresque novel, as literary genre, has the following characteristics:

Indeed, all the characters in this picaresque novel seem ready, even eager, to take on the world and one another, either intellectually or physically.

It is variously considered either the first picaresque novel or at least the antecedent of the genre.

These early war novels were usually satires and picaresque novels.

A literature of the homeless' surely has its roots in the picaresque novel:

The expression picaresque novel was coined in 1810.

He concentrated on the picaresque novel, where a low-born character would go through a practically endless series of adventures.

He is at work on a picaresque novel, The Poets' Stairwell.

Tolley's trip provides us with a picaresque novel and an often funny exploration of slacker consciousness.

Instead, Aira draws on a tradition of picaresque novels in Spanish that extends back to the 16th century.

This novel has many similarities to other picaresque novels such as Lazarillo de Tormes.

The novel is both a Bildungsroman and Picaresque novel.

In 1898 he was invited to give the annual Taylorian Lecture, choosing as his subject the picaresque novel.

Among the refugees making their way north are Mara and Dann, the heroes of this rambling, picaresque novel.

In this passage the grand, heedless ambition of his picaresque novel descends suddenly into nervous self-regard.