V.V. (1) Picaresque novel

[Vaska Tumir]

Hm, well, now....  Not sure about that first readership question at all:
it's the standard literary history view in English departments both here
(North America) and England, which is fine as far as the English scene is
concerned.  But is it true of Italy, France, Spain....?  After all,
picaresque narratives were the first European novels.  And somebody
evidently read them.   

Vaska

jody writes, re. jbor's recent:

> I wouldn't think so, except maybe from the masculine point of view. Surely
> the first readers were women, and the first novels love stories, not the
> bizarre repressed homoerotic longings of Don Quijote and gilligan, er,
> sancho.
>
> jody
>

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