The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

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The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature is written by J. A. Garrido Ardila and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 131629854X (ISBN 10) and 9781316298541 (ISBN 13).

Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the picaresque remains a controversial literary category, and its definition is still much contested. The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature examines the development of the picaresque, chronologically and geographically, from its origins in sixteenth-century Spain to the neopicaresque in Europe and the United States.