picaresca

English, and by the production of an imitation of the _novela picaresca_ -- a string of adventures as broken and disconnected as the adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes or Peregrine Pickle, and went on to become an exemplar.

Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876

To a clear and unprejudiced mind, observation of the life of the common folk and, above all, of the itinerant population and of their equivocal moral code, of necessity and invariably, compels resort to the form and manner of the _novela picaresca_.

Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

"Why, that Amazonian dress and manner," said Hartley, "savour a little of the _picaresca_."

The Surgeon's Daughter Walter Scott 1801

The novels of chivalry continue to be written down to the end of the sixteenth century, but already at the end of the first quarter of that period they encounter a formidable rival in the extremely realistic novel of roguery (novela picaresca) or picaroon romance, the first and greatest example of which is the "Lazarillo de

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913