his adult exile from Germany into picaresque vagabondage and tragic death on the run from the Nazis aged forty-eight in 1940

What I was referring to, I later realised, was the erotic picaresque of my early adulthood

The anonymous Spanish work Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the first picaresque novel, began an enthusiasm that spread to other countries, but the masterpiece of the form is Cervantes’ Don Quixote.

a picaresque exploration

I tried to find some harmony between the adventurous, picaresque inner rhythm that prompted me to write and the frantic spectacle of the world, sometimes dramatic and sometimes grotesque.

emerges instead as a surreal picaresque

Ortega y Gasset proclaimed the exhaustion of the picaresque novel since all of the options for plot lines had been used up

After a while, Doyle comes, reluctantly, to accept his Fate — which in literarygeneric terms is to be propelled, by means of SF, into the nineteenth-century picaresque

blending between the medieval romance and the early picaresque novel