NP: Picaresque novel

[The Great Quail]

jbor:

>The picaresque novel is a literary phenomenon originating in Spain and
>deriving in part, perhaps, from oral traditions of carnival pageantry and
>(usually grotesque) comic parody. It takes the form of an autobiographical
>account of the adventures of a particular type -- a *pícaro*, or 'rogue' --
>within contemporary society.

Just as a note to those interested; Umberto Eco has recently 
described his next novel, "Baudolino," as a "picaresque novel" set in 
the thirteenth century....

Maybe the English translation will be re-titled "B." ...?

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