Search Results for picaresque

...William B. Taylor Téllez's thesis about capitalism and the authors of picaresque novels' self-absorbed plight would be better served by starting with Fernández de Lizardi and recognizing the unsettling new opportunities of the early nineteenth century, with the collapse of Spanish rule...

...John V. Wall The author supports his thesis with detailed analyses of the best-known Spanish, German, French, and English picaresque novels. He also includes good bibliographical notes in the final section of the book. This study is a valuable contribution for both the literary specialist...

... cruel realism in its religion, its festivals, its study and its warfare, a society whose highest literary manifestation was the pícaro . In a final chapter the author considers the problem of picaresque literature as a social document. This is a vexed topic, on which historians and lettrists have...

... between the dates indicated. The earlier year marks the first English printing of a Spanish narrative Tractado … de Arnalde y Lucenda by Diego de San Pedro and the later the publication in English garb of the last of the great picaresque novels, Francisco de Quevedo’s searing Historia de la vida del...

.... Yet the narrative account and biographical reflections in the second half of the book are especially engaging and often gripping. Was Bohorques a power-obsessed charlatan? A utopian dreamer or revolutionary? A picaresque trickster? The man who presented himself as both conquistador and Inca...

... Atondo think of themselves—or did the authorities and a wider public think of them—in ways shaped by picaresque models?” (p. 89). In the fourth and final chapter, Taylor measures Aguayo and Atondo up against their fictional counterparts. Like the pícaros of literature, they tricked the gullible...

... of all, that of restraining his turbulent fellow conquerors once they had tasted victory in New Spain. The Cortés story, of course, lends itself admirably to this treatment since it contains inherently elements of the picaresque novel, the chivalric tale, and the heroic poem. Given the purpose...

.... Such is the ease, for example, in the tightly written pages on the picaresque or on the Comedia. Another considerable help to the reader is the inclusion of many germane samples of the works, along with their English translations. In this way, Stamm avoids the monotony of a purely historical treatment and leaves...

.... The depiction of these and related events reads almost like a picaresque novel. In the thoughtful conclusion it is suggested that the crown was prepared to tolerate a certain degree of socioeconomic autonomy for regional power groups, at least in this period, on the tacit understanding that they would not seek...

.... For those seeking insight into recent Brazilian history, any general text will suffice. For picaresque excitement, why not the adventures of Pedro Malazarte? ...

... literatures. In general, it presents its case with conciseness and complexity. Although it unfortunately lacks an index and bibliography, its notes are a rich source for further readings. The three strongest essays deal with major works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—the picaresque novel...

... discussion of the widespread use of coca leaves as a drug. Arzáns was not a gifted story-teller, as was a succesor of a century and a half later, Ricardo Palma (1833-1919), who dealt with similar aspects of viceregal Peru in his picaresque Tradiciones Peruanas . In contrast, the Potosí chronicler invariably...

... as Quiroga and Uslar Pietri, as well as Carrasquilla’s growing popularity. Although I admire Dario’s verse, the Nicaraguan was not distinguished for his fiction; also why include Rivera and Azuela, when their novels are hard to excerpt? Pito Pérez, being picaresque and episodic, lends itself more...

... contributed respectively by Ilan Rahum, Yoram Shapira, and Edy Kaufman. Miscellaneous in subject matter are the six literary articles. They include Joel I. Feldman’s perceptive “First-person Narrative Technique in the Picaresque Novel” of the seventeenth century; the five others are concerned...

... proposal in an almost picaresque survey. Colburn is not ostensibly writing an autobiography, but one encounters in some passages a modest but knowing apologia pro vita sua . The book’s approach is not unlike that of the “historioculturalists” promoted by the late Richard Morse, whose citrus humor...

... “documentary or testimonial” novel for “its leading practitioner.” A picaresque, first-person autobiography of a poor woman, it ranks among the most widely read and influential books in Mexican history. Illustrative of the “total” novel, the complex, monumental historical narrative in the mode of Carlos...

... to the content and context of El jefe (1958), La fiaca (1968), La Patagonia rebelde (1974), Plata dulce (1982), and La noche de los lápices (1986), as well as a few picaresque comedies and police thrillers. The next two essays (coauthored with Jorge M. López) fall under the title “Intervalo.” Each...

...); the satirist, picaresque poet Guviedes must be Caviedes (p. 233); Huamanco and Lucanos are doubtless Huamanga and Lucanas (p. 217); Viceroy Castelforte was Castelfuerte (p. 190); ad infinitum . Equally frustrating is the author’s failure to document information or quotations. In sum, this work in no way...

... of readers’ interests in the New World. Included among the libraries inventoried are those owned by Bishop Vicente de Valverde, who accompanied Pizarro, the viceroy Martín Enríquez, a picaresque priest Alonso de Torres Maldonado, and a local chieftain Pedro Milachami. Hampe Martínez not only presents...

... us to reach for his novels to explore for ourselves that picaresque yet didactic Mexican world he created in opposition to colonialism. ...