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• 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
• Nowlan has adopted the picaresque narrative, usually to be found in sprawling tales spread out in both time and space, to create a more foreshortened, more intensely realized, indeed more "concentrated" work of fiction that would not have the same impact had it been "shaped" in some other way, had it instead come in the form of a conventional "well-made story" employing the contemporary default mode of "psychological realism. Narrative Strategies
• Appropriately enough, it makes this transition within what we might think of as a picaresque interruption of the picturesque travel experience.
• The picaresque novels of the seventeenth century can count as forerunners as well.
• We must ask, then, whether or not the baroque picaresque novel arises from certain historical/socio-political and/or literary circumstances.
• It is the picaresque story of an Irish adventurer who unconsciously reveals his villainy while attempting self-justification.
• These comprise a kind of picaresque tale of Jack's philandering, selfish, funny life, accompanied by such supporting fables as the Pathetic Fallacy (now going by the name "Gary") and the Queen of Fortune. Boing Boing
• A genre of literature known as the picaresque novel is generally credited as having arisen in Spain with an anonymous 16th-century work entitled "Lazarillo de Tormes. The Seattle Times
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• The place was teeming with life in all its clamorous glory, and it seemed I had stumbled upon a picaresque underworld where everyone had escaped from a Dickens yarn.