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"ref": "1822, “Art. I.—Primera, y Segunda Parte de Guzman de Alfarache, por Matheo Aleman, Criado del Rey nuestro Senor, Natural, y Vezino de Sevilla. Madrid, 1723. 4to. The Rogue; or, The Life of Guzman de Alfarache. Written in the Spanish by Matheo Aleman, Servant to His Catholic Majestie, and Borne in Sevill. London, printed for Edward Blount, 1623.”, in The Retrospective Review, volume V, part II, London: Charles Baldwyn, […], →OCLC, pages 189–190",
"text": "A mere piece of roguery told in the abstract, without the proper picaresque ornaments, its manifold sinuosities and dexterities, has no interest for the reader; it may recommend the executor of it to the administration of a cat-o-nine-tails, or to an honourable post in the gallies: but there is no music in it without the proper accompaniments.",
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"ref": "1839, Henry Hallam, “Section III. On Works of Fiction.”, in Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, paragraph 41, pages 435–436",
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"ref": "1923, William J[oseph] Long, “Eighteenth-century Literature”, in Outlines of English Literature: […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Ginn and Company, →OCLC, page 189",
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"ref": "2009 November 1, Neil McDonald, “Scaramouche and the Swashbuckler”, in Quadrant, volume LIII, number 11 (number 461 overall), Sydney, N.S.W.: Quadrant Magazine Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-15, page 103",
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"ref": "2014, Konstantin Mierau, Binne de Haan, “Introduction: Bringing together Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel: Studying Menocchio, Guzmán de Alfarache, and Kin”, in Binne de Haan, Konstantin Mierau, editors, Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel: A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 2",
"text": "The picaresque novel finds its origins in the humanist search for an expansion of the historiographical genre. [...] The protagonist of the picaresque novel is the pícaro, a character of lowly descent who, by passing through a wide array of professions, attempts to rise in social standing.",
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"ref": "1937, Ford Madox Ford, “[Theodore] Drieser”, in Portraits From Life: […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; […], →OCLC, page 175",
"text": "And we had agreed completely as to the main stream in the history of the novel … as to its passing from Lope da Vega and the Spanish picaresques, by way of [Danie] Defoe and Richardson, to [Denis] Diderot, Stendahl and [Gustave] Flaubert [...]",
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"word": "roman picaresc"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plutovskój",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"word": "плутовско́й"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pikarésknyj román",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пикаре́скный рома́н"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pikarski roman"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pikareska"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"word": "pikareskný román"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pikareskni roman"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "novela picaresca"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"word": "pikaresk"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"word": "pikaresk roman"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"english": "krutijsʹkyj roman",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "крутійський роман"
},
{
"code": "fy",
"lang": "West Frisian",
"sense": "picaresque novel",
"word": "skelmeroman"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Medina del Campo"
],
"word": "picaresque"
}
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