picaresque
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The 18th century teemed with picaresque tales of comic misadventure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
But the story’s many twists and hair’s-breadth escapes — its devolution into a Holocaust picaresque — lack the foundation of historical truth that undergirded the writer’s debut effort.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2025
Seattle Times reviewer Wingate Packard called this 1950s road-trip tale “a hefty slab of clever storytelling,” adding that “Towles plays stylishly with elements of the picaresque, the coming-of-age novel and the epic quest.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023
“Oreo” is satire and metafiction, a picaresque and a bildungsroman.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023
When Edward Abbey was writing The Monkey Wrench Gang, his picaresque novel about eco-terrorism in the canyon country, his pal Ken Sleight was said to have inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Into the Wild
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