picaresques

I love pretty much everything Dawn Powell or Saki ever wrote, but I still can't make it through "A Confederacy of Dunces" God knows I've tried or "Molloy" or Thomas Pynchon's recent picaresques.

O'Hagan novel narrated by lap dog may leave readers eyeing a muzzle Louis Bayard 2010

I love pretty much everything Dawn Powell or Saki ever wrote, but I still can't make it through "A Confederacy of Dunces" God knows I've tried or "Molloy" or Thomas Pynchon's recent picaresques.

O'Hagan novel narrated by lap dog may leave readers eyeing a muzzle Louis Bayard 2010

Yet two of the greatest American novels are picaresques; Jones pays homage to them in his very title.

The Adventures of Douglas Bragg 2009

His songs are dark, violent and cheerfully deranged picaresques about outlaws, addicts, philanderers, murderous prom dates, headless soldiers of fortune and other undesirables not normally associated with pop songwriting -- all distilled from his grim sense of humor and ironic sensibility.

A New Lair for Zevon Desperadoes 2009

Yet two of the greatest American novels are picaresques; Jones pays homage to them in his very title.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Anthony Hope, and other great loves of my earliest teens; those authors 'delicious mysteries and picaresques I took for granted, not troubling over their method; but in Stevenson, even to a schoolboy the conscious artifice and nicety of phrase were puzzingly apparent.

Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

So are, perhaps, the picaresques of Murillo, the pictorial satires of Hogarth, the bizarreries of Goya ...

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

And also on my increasingly Sebaldian alter ego: I was closing on the age at which he had begun to write his picaresques, I was a middle-aged man with minimal baggage, few accessories, and a growing loathing of computers.

Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

These were picaresques, pure and simple: the journeys were the foundation of all the tales, the embellishments - personal, anecdotal, historical - came along the way, called forth by incidents on the road.

Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

And also on my increasingly Sebaldian alter ego: I was closing on the age at which he had begun to write his picaresques, I was a middle-aged man with minimal baggage, few accessories, and a growing loathing of computers.

Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009