Quevedo's El Buscón (1626). Some other ancient influences of the picaresque genre include Roman playwrights such as Plautus and Terence. The Golden Ass by Apuleius...

novels such as Fierabras, Robert le Diable, and Jean de Paris), satire (roman picaresque), religious literature, almanacs, manuals on etiquette, cookbooks,...

Simplicissimus (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in five books by German author...

Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев, romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov...

Roman martyrs and saints Art and fiction Simplicius Simplicissimus, a picaresque novel about the character of the same name Simplicius (operetta), an operetta...

Caesar and Pompey. The Satyricon (about 60) by Petronius was the first picaresque Latin novel. Only fragments of the complete work survive. It describes...

second author. It is most famous as the book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel. Lázaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After...

happy that he goes about freely exposing his bald head. Similar to other picaresque novels, The Golden Ass features several shorter stories told by characters...

cultural crisis. The oldest fragmentary novels are part of the (proto)-picaresque novel tradition. Some of these fragmented novels are also categorized...

character, and is singularly vivid. It is in the style of the Spanish picaresque romance, and furnished Théophile Gautier with the idea and with some of...