picaresque

How To Use picaresque In A Sentence

• The film is a picaresque ramble through a half-real Rome in which gridlocked cars are turned into living spaces; cardinals, monsignors and fawning aristocrats preside over Vatican fashion shows; and the district of Trastevere becomes a huge fairground teeming with local characters, guitar-strumming hippies, uniformed carabinieri. Finding Fellini
• But it was not quite the picaresque journey she presented to you. DISPLACED PERSON
• Instead, this title practices the picaresque by following a rogue on his adventures in the mundane world. Archive 2007-06-01
• He raised a fist halfway and pressed on further back into the picaresque. THE CALLIGRAPHER
• The very wording of the title points straight to the picaresque, and the connexion is perhaps most strongly in evidence in this novel. Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 - Presentation Speech
• His coolly rationalist approach to religion was complemented by an excitable temperament and a taste for the picaresque.
• Emperor Charles V., an accomplished soldier and a learned historian -- such was the creator of the hungry rogue Lazarillo, and the founder of the "picaresque" school of fiction, or the romance of roguery, which is not yet extinct. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
• Mier's Apologia frequently approximates the picaresque narrative's structure and thematics, and it reveals a baroque style.
• Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative. The English Novel
• Whilst the picaresque is certainly an excellent example of episodic narrative, it isn’t its only manifestation. What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room