Sentences with phrase «picaresque novel»
The paintings exist as a kind of picaresque novel in the way Melville's beautiful collection of stories, The Confidence Man, does.
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As Ron Padgett describes, in his introduction to this new facsimile edition, their collaborations included «plays, a fictitious correspondence, a picaresque novel, goofy interviews and poems of various types and lengths, as well as mistranslations and parodies of each other's work and the work of others.»
«The Decision at Grandville» could be the title of a chapter of a picaresque novel, a military history, or a Hercule Poirot mystery.
As usual, he painted all night long, then amused himself with fishing and the intermittent composition of a picaresque novel, autobiographical in nature.
«Lusty, violent, wildly funny... The Ginger Man is the picaresque novel to stop them all.»
John Kennedy Toole's hilariously picaresque novel about the implacable Ignatius J. Reilly: a «huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter - day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter» and his adventures in New Orleans.
Official Premise: Adapted from the picaresque novel by Barry Gifford, writer - director David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) is a scarifying road movie starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as Sailor and Lula, a pair of star - crossed lovers pursued across the American landscape by all manner of horrors.
The quest is distinguished from mere adventure, a trait which marks a great deal of nonfantasy fiction (going back, perhaps, to the picaresque novel).
Golden Hill is an update of eighteenth - century picaresque novels by the likes of Henry Fielding and entertains us with its savage wit, mystery, charismatic protagonist, and romantic storyline as it propels us toward a powerful revelation at the novel's end.
Not exact matches
In his classic 1926 novel, Moravagine, Cendrars draws on the picaresque form to send his titular hero — a crippled brute given to raping and murdering women — and his psychiatrist, the ironically titled Raymond Science (the book's narrator) on a world tour in the years leading up to the Great War, taking them from Europe to America and back in a darkly comedic odyssey of destruction and non-enlightenment.
That film, based loosely on the novel by Irvine Welsh, was a giddily stylish picaresque about a group of twentysomething friends scoring heroin at every opportunity in Edinburgh.
Part picaresque, part bildungsroman, Lady Bird & The Fox is a return to the dual - narrative romantic adventure of my early novels — packed with the kinds of historical detail that are generally overlooked in Australian fiction, and told with a bit of a wry smile and plenty of warmth.
Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er - do - well studying at Trinity College in Dublin.
Rudyard Kipling's Kim is one of my favourite classic novels, a picaresque set in nineteenth - century India.