Alemán, Mateo
Berger, Thomas Louis
Bredero, Gerbrand Adriaanszoon
diablo cojuelo, El
Farnol, John Jeffrey
Gil Blas de Santillane
Gogol, Nicolai Vasilyevich
Golden Ass, The
Good Soldier Svejk, The
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christofel von
| Guzmán de Alfarache
Kataev, Valentin Petrovich
Kipling, Rudyard
Lazarillo de Tormes
Le Sage, Alain-René
On the Road
Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gómez de
Smollett, Tobias George
Zangwill, Israel
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| This was the famous picaresque novel, 'Lazarillo de Tormes,' by Hurtado de Mendoza, whose name then so familiarized itself to my fondness that now as I write it I feel as if it were that of an old personal friend whom I had known in the flesh. He must have acquired experiences which would form abundant material for a picaresque novel of modern Paris, but he remained aloof, and judging from his conversation there was nothing in those years that had made a particular impression on him. They belonged mostly to that class of realistic fiction which is called picaresque, from the Spanish word 'picaro,' a rogue, because it began in Spain with the 'Lazarillo de Tormes' of Diego de Mendoza, in 1553, and because its heroes are knavish serving-boys or similar characters whose unprincipled tricks and exploits formed the substance of the stories. |
