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Exiled to the margins of society and surviving by his wits in the course of his wanderings, the picaro marks a sharp contrast to the high-born characters on who

This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of S

Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cel

Story motifs from all of the thirty major picaresque novels of Spain's Golden Age present the picaro as a nomadic rogue who survived by cleverness and deception

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of