Defining the Genre: The Picaresque Novel
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- This is a new series I want to work on. I want to make overviews of different genres and make some recommendations.
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We actually learn about Lazarillo de Tormes in schools in Spain!! Along with a few more picaresque novels.
That is amazing! I hope my pronunciation wasn't too terrible 😅.
One of the earliest and most famous Fantasy/ Picacaresque novels is Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice ( 1919 ) by James Branch Cabell . One can see it influenced Jack Vance greatly .
I have some James Branch Cabell on my shelf. I really need to get around to reading them.
Cugel's Saga read by Authur Morey is phenomenal, and I highly recommend it. Reading about Cugel is really fun. It was the first time I found joy in seeing someone fail... repeatedly, but secretly wanting him to succeed as well. The bombastic way it's written is almost a character unto itself.
It totally agree with you and Arthur Morey is amazing!
“When was the last time a turd or a moron in your personal life changed for the better?” Hot damn, I might die from laughter. Because it’s so true!
I was only thinking of a few people on my "turd" list when I said that 😂
Such a cool vid! I’d heard this term before but never actually knew what it meant
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I didn't either until last week. Then I spent way too long reading about it 😅
Would the Gentleman Bastard series fall under this umbrella?
Yes! It is one of the reasons I want to read the series. I knew about the series before my research on Picaresque novels and when I saw people saying that is what they were I knew I needed to read them ASAP.
This sounds pretty great actually. A novel that might fit the bill is The Good Soldier Svejk, which was one of the funniest things I've read this year.
I will add it to my wishlist.
(I went and added it. Oh man it takes place in WW1! I will definitely be keeping an eye out for it!)
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The virgin boat thing from Cugel's Saga is legendary. Have you read A Quest for Simbilis? It's more Cugel goodness. I recently read Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and very much enjoyed that picaresque novel from the 17th century. Nice overview!
I had not connected Gentlemen of the Road to picaresque though I guess it kinda fits, though killing is present the label sword & sandal fits better I think, it's largely an homage to Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
Simplicius is also on my Picaresque TBR.
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Listening to you define "picaresque" and thinking "that's the Mortdecai books!" Pay no attention to the movie adaptation; the books are hard to put down.
Don't Point That Thing At Me and All The Tea In China in particular really fit the bill. They have this great nasty sense of humor in the face of doom.
I will keep an eye out for those!
What was the Spanish name of the first novel from this genre?
Lazarillo de Tormes
@@JosephReadsBooksThanks, I love that genre too. Thanks for the great video.
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