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picaro /ˈpɪkərəʊ /noun (plural picaros)A rogue: the main character is a picaro who lives by his wits...- As the picaro physically travels, he emotionally and intellectually proceeds from innocence to disillusionment; desengaño, of course, is also a sentiment that permeates baroque texts.
- 40 Poems, ballads, and images suggested an American picaro, a raffish trickster and canny businessman, whose slick tongue and sharp wit made him impossible to trust fully.
- It introduces a new approach which offers the possibility of taking the idea of the ‘other’ as scapegoat and also as a means for redemption as a defining characteristic of the picaro.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Spanish. |