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Picaresque

adjective

Involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction. "Waifs of the picaresque tradition" , "A picaresque hero"

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"Picaresque" Quotes from Famous Books

... century: Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer. The drama of England and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Painting and sculpture from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. The classical mind, and the principle of good taste and common sense. The realism of Defoe and Hogarth, and the Spanish Picaresque novel. Sentimentalism in the eighteenth century. The poetry and painting of nature. The great revolution and the romantic movement. Great literature and art are ...

— The Unity of Civilization • Various

... opportunity this time, but an aesthetic opportunity. You could have got him to tell you all about his life in prison, and perhaps his whole career leading up to it, and you could have made something interesting of it. You might have written a picaresque novel or a ...

— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells

... moments it seemed to him he did not care a straw whether Ursula or Hermione or anybody else existed or did not exist. Why bother! Why strive for a coherent, satisfied life? Why not drift on in a series of accidents-like a picaresque novel? Why not? Why bother about human relationships? Why take them seriously-male or female? Why form any serious connections at all? Why not be casual, drifting along, taking all for what it ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

Words linked to "Picaresque" : dishonorable, dishonest