Vanity Fair as a Picaresque Novel The very term, "Picaresque" has been originated from the Spanish word ‘Picaro’, which means a "rogue", or "knave". A Picaresque novel is a story undertaking the adventures or misadventures of a Picaro or who wanders from one country to another, from …

Robinson Crusoe as an Allegory Intro: An allegory is a narrative piece of art in which the authors use their characters, setting and plot to entertain by delivering moral lessons. Allegories were popular in England from the sixteenth century onward Robinson Crusoe is regarded as one of the finest allegori…

A picaresque novel deals with the adventures of a rogue or villain. Narayan’s Man Eater of Malgudi has almost all the spices to be a picaresque novel surrounded by the picaro man, Vasu. He has been shown as an adventurous and mysterious wanderer. He pretends to be a person of dual personality. Vasu , the proto…

Narayan holds a distinct position in the realm of Anglo-Indian literature . In Man Eater of Malgudi , he depicts the canvas without sounding preachy or cynical. The quiet landscape of  Malgudi  provides a suitable background for his fiction.  Malgudi  is a microcosm, this is a world within a world. Meenakshi Mukh…

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the classics in American literature . The novel is apparently a child’s adventure story in form of a bildungsroman, a type of novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological and intellectual development of a youthful protagonist. The novel remain an et…

The picaresque novel (Spanish: ‘picaresco’ , from ‘picaro’ , for ‘rogue’ and ‘rascal’) is a popular genre of novel that originated in Spain and flourished in Europe in the 17 th and 18 th centuries and has continued to influence modern literature. Therefore, picaresque novel is the life story of rogue or…