And when I say it's a "picaresque," I mean it.
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Social realism will not help him on his picaresque journey.
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Before he became a novelist, DBC Pierre had already led a picaresque life.
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Droll and fanciful, it is a picaresque tale with a mischievously understated attitude.
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Wrath, sloth, cowardice and pride all have seats at "Dead Souls"'s picaresque buffet.
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Rarely have I seen so much army green employed to such a picaresque extent.
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Rarely have I seen so much army green employed to such a picaresque extent.
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They are, by turns, tragic and humorously picaresque, and often both at the same time.
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More than that, Jacobsen has arranged her story in a kind of nonfiction picaresque novel.
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To understand viveza criolla, one must work backwards to 16th-century Spain and the 'picaresque' literary tradition.
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The episodic narrative turns picaresque as Pee-wee gets closer to Joe and his Tribeca loft bash.
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I took it randomly, as a picaresque culminating in a visit to the museum's ground-floor sculpture court.
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But one of her earlier, breakthrough plays, in 2004, was a picaresque comedy on a much smaller scale.
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Its astonishing energy comes from the contrast between its perky, picaresque structure and its muscular, high-flying prose.
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It was as real as Paris, and picaresque fantasies were harder to maintain in front of the lens.
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Mr. O'Brien's "Going After Cacciato" is an irrational picaresque, with an AWOL protagonist walking from Vietnam to Paris.
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"Bullard's absorbing story … reads like a picaresque novel," Thomas E. Ricks writes in his latest roundup of military books.
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He and some friends launch a picaresque retrieval mission into the countryside, meeting bandits and soldiers on the way.
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There's only a little time left to invest in a ticket to Bruce Norris's picaresque about free market capitalism.
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There's only a little time left to invest in a ticket to Bruce Norris's picaresque about free-market capitalism.
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It is named after Leopold Bloom, whom the book follows on a daylong picaresque voyage through Dublin, Joyce's hometown.
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Given that Banks's business life has been picaresque, and his financial history opaque, many questions may never be fully answered.
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Metempsychosis steers this picaresque novel, but its main preoccupation is television, watched through the eyes of the soul's host bodies.
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This isn't to say that Britain should suddenly become 'picaresque', but we could at least temper our revulsion towards diving.
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The Bad Batch is a neo-dystopian picaresque set in a wasteland outside Texas that the US has officially disavowed.
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The cabin, built with an Emersonian deference to nature, is humbly picaresque, like a Wes Anderson still come to life.
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Language and literature bestow both blessings and curses on the picaresque heroes in Mr Mabanckou's novels of his central African homeland.
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A runaway Roma slave becomes the subject of a manhunt in this picaresque road film, set in early 19th-century Romania.
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The picaresque narrative, crammed with characters who would do well in Cervantes, comes to an end without having taught us anything.
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That's the setup for the Canadian writer Michael Christie's new novel, "Greenwood," a time-hopping, globe-circling picaresque with apocalyptic themes.
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The main body of his work is picaresque, very funny, and you can smell the kind of defiant atheism in his poems.
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Ralph Breaks the Internet is a picaresque, a joyous romp through the backwaters of the internet that nevertheless packs a powerful punch.
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Wisniewski is not above describing Algren's unfinished novel, "Entrapment," as "a picaresque muddle," an apt phrase for most of his longer fiction.
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When the father dies of a heart attack, his three sons shoot their landlord and begin a picaresque life on the run.
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High-concept science fiction prestige drama, by way of a midlife-crisis family drama, with some bizarre picaresque road-movie adventure thrown in.
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The picaresque tale is infused with a fun, folksy magical realism one made more delightful by the many colorful descriptive phrases peppered throughout.
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Dream House as Picaresque Before I met the woman from the Dream House, I lived in a tiny two-bedroom in Iowa City.
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The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the book's unlucky main character who embarks on a daylong picaresque voyage through Dublin, Joyce's hometown.
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The most Cervantean story is "Going for a Beer," a picaresque about a modern drunk who is easily captivated by random women in bars.
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Can a 21st-century writer of topical take-no-prisoners satires find happiness in the quaint but rollicking form of the 18th-century picaresque?
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For the first time, an American writer told a Jewish-American hero's picaresque story of self-discovery in heightened language and street-smart argot.
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It was Dickey who pushed to acquire the rights with Reilly to the 240 Patrick DeWitt picaresque from which "The Sisters Brothers" is adapted.
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An Appraisal Sebastian Dangerfield, the hero of J. P. Donleavy's picaresque masterwork "The Ginger Man" (1955), knew how he wanted to exit this world.
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Shot in Super 8, "The Least Resistance" (1980–81) is a hoot, a picaresque tale about a couple of lazy, irritable, scheming, self-deluding lowlifes.
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Jakob Nolte, a young German playwright, turns the sprawling picaresque into a two-man show for the title knight and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza.
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He is 76 and describes himself as "a picaresque guy" from New Orleans, with artistic tendencies that he channeled into a career as a merchant.
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" The journalist George Plimpton ranked them with the works of Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Jack Kerouac and Harry Matthews in the genre of "American picaresque.
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Thus begins a kind of picaresque journey through black New York, and, in parallel, through the Bosch-like fantasy- and horror-scape of Mitchell's racial imagination.
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If the novel is a cunning metafiction, it's also a lusty picaresque and, ultimately, as the author braids Sheppard's and Voth's stories, an impassioned political proof.
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David Korins's picturesque shorthand sets; Emily Rebholz's flavorful costumes; Ben Stanton's shadow-steeped lighting and Matt Tierney's sound all match the prevailing tone of poisoned picaresque.
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That's the premise of "The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir," a picaresque chronicle of a poor Indian magician, Aja (Dhanush), that dispenses whimsy in epic proportions.
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In picaresque fashion, Ms. Nottage (who likewise lives in Brooklyn) puts Undine through humiliations that mark her fall while serving as satires of familiar theatrical tropes.
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With all of these undercurrents and subterranean connections, "Sudden Death" might seem Pynchonesque but for its tone, which is mischievous and picaresque rather than paranoid and foreboding.
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"In the Blazing Cities of Your Rotten Mouth," a brutal picaresque of assassins, torture, and state-sponsored death, ends with the section "Imagination Challenge #2": It's nighttime.
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Two lithographs from 1827 by European visitors to Rio, capital of the new empire of Brazil, depict picaresque street scenes crowded with traders, monks, hawkers and slaves.
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In his works — almost all for piano — he dispensed with the programmatic titles that many 19th-century composers used to evoke fairy-tale landscapes and picaresque quests.
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A sweet, shambling poem to the tenacity of hope and the sustaining power of friendship, "Hunter Gatherer" joins two luckless strivers on a picaresque journey to nowhere.
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Kamtchowsky — one of the main characters in Oloixarac's exuberant blend of political satire and sexual picaresque — is a young, unsightly woman who meets a young, unsightly man.
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"Better Call Saul" is a more fun, picaresque show than "Breaking Bad," but it's every bit as moral, a travelogue of the smooth-paved desert road to perdition.
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The story drifts with Charley, in and out of peril, and becomes a doleful picaresque; as his face grows hollow and besmirched, we desperately want him to survive.
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Mr. Reed writes in an utterly idiosyncratic pastiche of styles and genres — part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe).
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From this slim real-life footnote, Harris develops a marvelously harrowing, thrillingly picaresque tale of two brothers, Emile and Lucien, and their journey into the heart of darkness.
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Each "episode" of the serial is noticeably picaresque in style — lots of action sequences, horror visuals and witty banter, but not many moments of narrative pause or introspection.
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Danny McBride's belligerent Kenny Powers from HBO's Eastbound and Down, another indestructible modern picaresque hero—and one who's seen considerably more fame and appreciation—owes Ricky his entire act.
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With intricacy and humor, Van der Vliet Oloomi relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges.
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As our reviewer, Liesl Schillinger, wrote, the author "relays Zebra's brainy, benighted struggles as a tragicomic picaresque whose fervid logic and cerebral whimsy recall the work of Bolaño and Borges."
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This comic picaresque, which opened on Monday night at Playwrights Horizons under the direction of Robert O'Hara, follows Bella (Ashley D. Kelley), who is celebrated in her hometown, Tupelo, Miss.
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It follows the picaresque adventures of a young chap named Jim Trewitt, who begins life as a foundling left on a brothel's doorstep but rises to become an impressively cunning businessman.
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A freewheeling approach to free market theory, this 218-character picaresque from Bruce Norris ("Clybourne Park") is set in the late 2866th century and inspired by the theories of Adam Smith.
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A freewheeling approach to free market theory, this 25876-character picaresque from Bruce Norris ("Clybourne Park") is set in the late 8663th century and inspired by the theories of Adam Smith.
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And to European eyes certain types of Mexican portraits — of nuns wearing hand-painted badges like breastplates, and arriviste urban matrons showing off their wealth — must have had a picaresque appeal.
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The novel is a slapdash, picaresque adventure and spiritual coming-of-age tale — "On the Road" crossed with "Henderson the Rain King" with some nods to "National Lampoon's Vacation" along the way.
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On Christmas Eve 1932, they leave their watering hole in the West 40s to embark on a picaresque journey to Pennsylvania — these three are always on the run from something or someone.
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But he was also, as this show asserts, a kind of working-class hero, whose rakish tastes and picaresque exploits only became possible as an old social order began to give way.
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Among Waters's works, which range from her delightful picaresque debut Tipping the Velvet (1998) to the slow-building crime novel The Paying Guests (2014), The Little Stranger is an anomaly on multiple fronts.
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Ryvkin and I came up with ''Londongrad,'' a fast-paced picaresque — half comedy, half thriller — about a brilliant, anarchic Oxford dropout and his Muscovite rich-girl sidekick who work as fixers in London.
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Because a popular and picaresque county fair was in progress, all the hotels were booked and she'd had to sleep in her car, which she could at least park on a quiet street.
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UPROOTING THE action of Miguel de Cervantes's 17th-century picaresque "Don Quixote" to present-day America, Sir Salman Rushdie's characteristically busy new book follows Sam, an Indian novelist who lives in New York.
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It is a gleefully written bildungsroman picaresque, as maximalist as novels come, and it swoops through eight decades of a family's history in the voice of an intersex man named Cal, born Calliope.
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Many of these — such as her breakthrough novel "Primeval and Other Times," which was published in Poland in 1996 — have been written in the picaresque tradition and reflect the upheavals of Polish history.
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The story is a picaresque, half revelling in the chaos, and alive to the thought of a future seeded with hope, whereas the residents of "Graduation" have either given up or caved in.
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It has remained Sondheim's most picaresque piece, a tale of two itinerant brothers, at odds with and reliant on each other (one of whom is the only gay leading character in a Sondheim musical).
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A gifted, relentless self-promoter, he devoted his picaresque life to convincing people that he, as visionary truth-teller, would repeatedly rise from life's devastations to triumph over the opprobrium of a blinkered society.
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Once the plot requires Percy to go on a picaresque quest to retrieve the titular lightning bolt, with Annabeth and a satyr named Grover (Jorrel Javier) in tow, the storytelling and songwriting become hectic and monotonous.
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Recounted in poetic prose with context from pop-history and cultural commentary, MacLean's picaresque adventures include poignant reunions and chance encounters with a colorful cast of characters ranging from intellectuals to proletarians, tycoons to destitute migrants.
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A comment on the innately human desire for companionship, the story is a "picaresque parable," A.H. Weiler wrote for The Times in 1956, the year the film won an Academy Award for best foreign language film.
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Despite its somber theme, the film is mainly a conventional road movie — a picaresque journey across Australia's dazzling interior that changes Rex's outlook, starting with the rides he gives to a chatty footballer and an English nurse.
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The novel is their picaresque journey, allowing for moments of pure soaring beauty to hit against the most mundane, for a sense of timelessness to be placed right beside a cleareyed version of the here and now.
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The photographic term "flashes" also applies to the method of Cole's 2012 novel, "Open City," which arranges its incidents somewhat obliquely, in an episodic rhythm based on psychological discovery rather than adventure or suspense: an introspective picaresque.
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Gender and its discontents indeed form the central theme of Hartman's entertaining picaresque, which picks up where her two previous fantasy novels, "Seraphina" and "Shadow Scale," left off: in a medieval world shot through with modern concerns.
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Quietly, she sent her manuscript to Turnstone Press, a small Winnipeg publishing house, and " Summer of My Amazing Luck ," a picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city, appeared in 1996.
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So in picaresque desperation Furman and/or his half-tinfoil lover/confederate hide out in a beach house and spend a sleepless night in an Arkansas trailer park, recite a prayer in Hebrew and steal a dress from Goodwill.
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The myriad horrors of the gray-market trade in baseball players are everywhere in Ordóñez's story, and the stink of them floats through the early coverage of it even as those stories strain for the old sentimental baseball picaresque.
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"Tangerine," his microbudget Los Angeles picaresque tale about two transgender women of color working an unbecoming strip of Santa Monica Boulevard near Highland Avenue, found its way onto year-end best-of lists and has been steadily collecting awards and nominations.
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And it's partly because her life is a picaresque adventure on par with some of the greats in literature, weaving in dark family tragedy (she's orphaned by the time she's 23) with international globetrotting and grand acts of romantic pursuit.
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In 2005, the writer JT LeRoy—then best known for Sarah (2000), a picaresque novel that allegedly drew on his experiences as a cross-dressing teenage truck-stop whore—was revealed to be a 40-year-old woman named Laura Albert.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, is a modern spin on the Dickensian picaresque, with a highly episodic plot taking place over many years and nearly 800 pages.
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In some ways, the movies could not be more different — one tightly controlled, scaffolded by the historical record and exuding a verisimilitude despite the liberties it takes; the other sending a historical character down a fictionalized picaresque flight of fancy.
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Beginning with Train Whistle Guitar in 1975, the picaresque fictions trace the development of Murray's alter ego, Scooter, a riff-style improviser from the American South who comes of age amid complex social dynamics of the early-to-mid twentieth century.
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Perhaps the best-known American novel to fall under the definition of "picaresque" is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a veritable buffet of tropes from all sorts of genres in which Huck and his friend, the escaped slave Jim, float down the Mississippi.
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But it's still a picaresque comedy that doubles as an extended demo reel on the art of seamlessly integrated visual effects, from digitally removed limbs to CG-sweetened sunsets and augmented crowd shots, all introduced long before this kind of technology became commonplace.
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Written in the form of realist fiction, the picaresque novel is packed with anti-establishment, subversive sentiment whereby the 'picaro' – effectively a working-class hero – deftly sidesteps responsibility and defies 'the man', relying on the one resource in their possession: their wit.
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As he bumbles through the thickets of picaresque plot in this doggedly weird satire, Mr. Fontana maintains an air of almost saintly purity, portraying a man seeking purpose and finding it in a most un-American pursuit: giving away all of his millions.
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"American Made" encourages and earns your laughter, although it also provokes skepticism, particularly in its attempt to portray Barry as a picaresque hero, one of those rogues tumbling and swaggering from adventure to adventure in a world that's more corrupt than they are.
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This marks Ralph Breaks the Internet as belonging to a specific subgenre of the picaresque, one that harks to old Hollywood — the story of two small-town kids who set out for the big city and find their friendship tried by what they encounter there.
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The directors and the design team worked to create a distinct style for each of the five parts, keyed to the radically different literary genres Mr. Bolaño drew on: fairy tale, hard-boiled crime novel, academic satire, lyrical short story, "Don Quixote"-style picaresque.
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This she does in "Walking with the Muses," a picaresque new memoir about a tall, skinny mixed-race girl ("not black enough to be black or white enough to be white") hailing from a section of East Harlem that she terms the Golden Edge.
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Ultimately, the new-type detective is addicted to the picaresque so beautifully described in The Instant Enemy: I had to admit to myself that I lived for nights like these, moving across the city's great broken body, making connections among its millions of cells.
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But in writing an interconnected short story collection about it, he has also mapped how climate change, income inequality, homophobia, anti-blackness, and anti-immigrant fervor are shaping our present, in what becomes a 21st-century picaresque, by the end— almost, even, an oracle.
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Amid the heightened emotions and picaresque adventure of Sólo con Tu Pareja, Cuarón still finds time for a quirky little sequence where Tomás lines up paper cones and then steps on them and for a gorgeous love scene where light and shadow curve hypnotically over bare skin.
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Tom Waits' back catalog—currently undergoing an extensive re-release campaign by his latter day label ANTI—might seem a little daunting at first, but exploring his vast, poetic, picaresque songs is one of life's great ongoing pleasures, or indulgent miseries, depending on how you see it.
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It reminded me of Keith Miller's "The Book of Flying" crossed with Judith Merkle Riley's "A Vision of Light" and "The Master of All Desires" — a picaresque coming-of-age story about transformation set in a history made fantastical by taking the period's beliefs at face value.
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What ensues is a picaresque adventure through a London rarely seen in literature of the period, one filled with sentinels and fear of plague but also with a thriving subculture of mollies (18th-century slang for queer men) and prostitutes and a celebratory aura of sexual freedom.
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Rather than investigate, say, why Scottie's devotion to her patients seems to have alienated her teenage son — or address the painful realities of protecting infants from tantrum-prone relatives — Michael Golamco's script (adapted from his one-act play) sends Wendy off on a picaresque journey to Los Angeles.
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Running close to three hours, "Against" tells the picaresque tale of a vaguely Jesus-like billionaire by the name of Luke (Ben Whishaw), who roams the United States in search of places marred by violence — no shortage of those, alas — so that he can spread his good word.
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Kureishi is the Londoner (of Pakistani descent) who wrote the 1985 Daniel Day Lewis film "My Beautiful Laundrette" and arrived on the literary scene with the 1990 novel "The Buddha of Suburbia," a bi-curious picaresque whose wily mixed-race hero bed-hopped his way out of the London suburbs.
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The novel, then, is their picaresque journey, allowing for moments of pure soaring beauty to hit against the most mundane, for a sense of timelessness to be placed right beside a cleareyed version of the here and now, for a sense of vast dispossession to live beside day-to-day misery and poverty.
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If Mathews is trying to show that humans are caught up in their own preoccupations even in the face of the most dire events, fine — after all, the Trump era proves it every day — but the point is muted by his own meanderings as he careens from the picaresque to the thriller.
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The story he inhabits follows the classic pattern of picaresque novels: With an associate named Huncks, he makes his way through the back alleys, mansions, forts and forests of colonial New England, meeting all manner of social and ethnic types — colonial governors, Puritan saints, Quakers, scoundrels, "savages," merchants, termagants and lovely, sweet women.
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The high-living protagonist leaves the scene of an altercation with his wife and nanny over his son and heads straight to the Greyhound station to start a picaresque journey to the other end of the country — a journey in search of an old girlfriend and, one surmises, an autism-less American dream.
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In late 1975, Dylan had already recorded — but not yet released — "Desire," his album featuring songwriting collaborations with the theater director Jacques Levy, including "Hurricane" and other taut, picaresque story-songs about love, trust and death, like "Isis" and "Romance in Durango," that Rolling Thunder audiences would be hearing for the first time.
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The rags-to-riches plot is an intentionally improbable picaresque featuring all the glorious elements of great operas of the era: love at first sight, disguise, intrigue, grief, betrayal, secrets, scheming aristocrats, a besotted tenor, dramatic escapes, grand settings, fabulous costumes, murder, fallen women, sacrifice — the follies of humans at the mercy of Fate.
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Although it got some dire reviews when it first opened in the United States in 1979 — writing for The New York Times, Vincent Canby called it "a commonplace mess that attempts to fuse the clichés of the popular cinema into a kind of pop epic" — it's about time that audiences revisit this boisterous, picaresque jewel.
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Meadowlands Picaresque, another culminating project that began with a kind of obsession, was installed at Smack Mellon in 2013, and used photographs, plants, and fabricated objects to reference Zanisnik's childhood — his parents made weekly appearances in the space as "performers" by staying mostly motionless — as well as the Meadowlands, a polluted swamp in New Jersey.
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Believing in little and attached to nothing, Lakhdar pinballs through a picaresque series of jobs, living arrangements, relationships: peddling pamphlets for the extremist Center for the Propagation of Koranic Thought; transcribing First World War casualty records "by the kilometer"; exchanging poems with his on-and-off girlfriend, a student of Arabic literature from Barcelona.
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Bolaño's admirers will find in these themes and players a satisfying proleptic glimpse of his picaresque masterpiece, 1998's "The Savage Detectives" — a circuitous hunt for vestiges of an underground "visceral realist" literary movement and its muse, the poet Cesárea Tinajero, which starts in Mexico City and detours to the Sonora Desert, Paris, San Diego, Barcelona and elsewhere.
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Packed with incisive essayistic excursions, explorations of chance, traffic accidents, pathology, probability and the weather, along with extravagant characters, picaresque sexual encounters and a rebellious questioning of love, gender and morality in a world then newly abandoned by God, "The Man Without Qualities," which is set in 1913 and runs nearly 2,000 pages, has a contemporary flavor.
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The reason Twin Peaks resists easy theorizing, and did even back in 1990 when it debuted, is because the series flits so easily from its master plot about some sort of strange supernatural struggle between forces humans can barely comprehend and the sort of small-town soap/picaresque that defines a lot of the supporting plots.
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I consider Jaroslav Hasek's comic picaresque "The Good Soldier Svejk" the most essential novel about World War I, Joseph Heller's gag-filled "Catch-22" the most essential about World War II and Muriel Spark's "The Girls of Slender Means" one of the best, and funniest, books about civilian life in the span of both of those (obviously) tragic, serious and extremely consequential wars.
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She both obsesses over The Pickwick Papers—a picaresque novel like her own—and riffs on her dislike of A.S. Byatt's best-seller Possession: As I skimmed it my face was contorted by sneers, and after skipping to the end to make sure the heroine really was the direct descendant of the vigorously adulterous dead poets and heiress to their fortunes, I resolved to write a novel myself.
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She is hardly the first person to come to the country with a ravening eye, and there is an all-you-can-eat quality to the resulting picaresque, with sights to be feasted on at every turn: glowing ranks of fast-food signs, a perspiring square dance, and family photos and children's drawings, glanced at when we enter a house, as if Arnold were a detective assessing a crime scene.
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" It's his most fully realized book, a frazzled picaresque about a young black man who, sensing he needs a gimmick to make it in the white world, employs an economy-size jar of hair relaxer ("the red, white, and gold label guarantees that the user can go deep-sea diving, emerge from the water, and shake his head triumphantly like any white boy") to achieve what he calls "the wig.
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He was not a member of the celebrated Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, as most people assume, but a Georgian named Eugene Bullard who flew for the French decades earlier, during World War I. Bullard's absorbing story, which reads like a picaresque novel, is related in ALL BLOOD RUNS RED: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard — Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy (Hanover Square, $39.95), by Phil Keith and Tom Clavin, each the author of several books of history.
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Mr. Hurt's other film roles include a cross-dresser called the Countess in an adaptation of Tom Robbins's picaresque novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1993); Professor Oxley, an archaeologist pal of the title character (Harrison Ford) in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008); the head of British intelligence, known only as Control, in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011), from the John le Carré novel; and a Roman Catholic priest in "Jackie" (2016).
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But this season there is a rare confluence of books by or about him: Penguin Classics has put together a Hearn collection called " Japanese Ghost Stories "; Princeton University Press has just issued a similar compendium called " Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn ," with a passionate introduction by Andrei Codrescu; and the latest work from the esteemed Vietnamese-American novelist Monique Truong, " The Sweetest Fruits " (Viking), is a fictional reconstruction of Hearn's picaresque life told in the voices of the three women—his two wives and his mother—whose time with him proved most formative.
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