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picaresque, a.|pɪkəˈrɛsk|
Also pickaresque.
[ad. Sp. picaresco roguish, knavish, f. picaro: see -esque; so in mod.F. (Littré).]
a. Belonging or relating to rogues or knaves: applied esp. to a style of literary fiction dealing with the adventures of rogues, chiefly of Spanish origin. Also in transf. and extended uses. Also as n.
[1810J. Ballantyne Life De Foe in De Foe's Wks., Works of fiction in the style termed by the Spaniards Gusto Picaresco. ] Ibid., We could select from these picaresque romances a good deal that is not a little amusing.1829Scott Jrnl. 28 Feb., Memoirs of Vidocq..a pickaresque tale..a romance of roguery. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. i. viii. §48 This [the Lazarillo de Tormes by Mendoza] is the first known specimen in Spain of the picaresque, or rogue style. 1895H. B. M. Watson in Bookman Oct. 19/2 He exalts Disraeli... He loves a trickster; the picaresque amuses him. 1918A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 245 Near by lives a distinguished lady of romantic picaresque tastes, who dotes on street pianos. 1955Times 9 Aug. 9/7 The Russians are paying a price for the energetic imposing of rigid form..on a nation which is in character essentially picaresque. 1958Listener 19 June 1011/1 The first of a trilogy, it is more accessible than its companions, and more lively; a kind of psychological picaresque. 1959J. M. S. Tompkins Art R. Kipling i. 29 There is some likeness in the broad, general plan of the two stories [sc. Kim and Huckleberry Finn]. They are picaresque narratives, with boys as travellers. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1035/4 There is a strong school of black picaresque. 1976Ibid. 23 Apr. 481/5 The central character of this contemporary picaresque of the mind [sc. a novel].
¶b. Of a situation: transitory, impermanent. Of a person: drifting, peregrinatory.
An erron. usage from an inference that the picaresque hero is a vagrant or wanderer.
1959Manch. Guardian 28 July 6/5 The boys are attracted by the picaresque nature of working with a private building or decorating firm. 1960Observer 17 Apr. 20/7 One is beginning to dread that word ‘picaresque’... He dashes his suburban hero all over the place. 1978Country Life 6 July 57/4 Kyril Bonfigliole..has now produced..an historical picaresque—picaresque in both the popular sense of roaming far afield and in the strict sense of being..about a rogue. |