(a.) Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
Example Sentences:
(1) It makes up part of our legendary picaresque national character, and our weak culture of solidarity."
(2) "My writing is more influenced from the European side - the picaresque novel, but also for me there's Melville, and not only Moby Dick, and poetry from Walt Whitman, who've influenced European literature.
(3) Yet it suffers from an inconsistency of tone, an overly picaresque procession of events, and a general wooziness – perhaps imparted by the scorching Puerto Rican locations – that around the 60-minute mark induces an insidious siesta-time sleepiness in the viewer (well, this one, at least).
(4) Now read on Rupert Thompson's The Insult, with its combination of American picaresque and dreamlike alienation, is greatly influenced by Auster.
(5) This is the story of a picaresque journey in France and in Corsica of Jules Cloquet (1790-1883), the French anatomist who described the well-known Cloquet's node and of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), the famous author of "Madame Bovary" and of many others novels.
(6) This great American picaresque isn’t especially heavy on narrative force so it remains to be seen how playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and director David Esbjornson will propel the Big Easy action along.
(7) The others on the shortlist were Carol Birch for her much-admired Jamrach's Menagerie , a historical high seas adventure; two Canadian writers - Patrick deWitt for The Sisters Brothers , a picaresque western, and Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues , which mixes the raw beauty of jazz and the terror of Nazism; and two debut novels – Stephen Kelman for Pigeon English , which tells the story of a Ghanaian boy who turns detective on a south London housing estate; and AD Miller for Snowdrops , a Moscow-set tale of corruption and moral decline.
(8) But when all the daring connections and imaginative leaps coincide, such as in the Dragons' Trilogy, a picaresque exploration of Chinese culture, or in the seismic plotlines of Tectonic Plates, and Seven Streams, when it appeared again at the National in 1996 (after four years of public performances had refined it to perfection) the effect is spellbinding.
(9) Huck Finn itself is travel writing, in which the raft-trip down the Mississippi provides the picaresque structure for an episodic tale, an Edenic journey away from civilisation, as well as an occasionally frightening glimpse of the (all-too-human) wilderness.
(10) Sympathetic readers have actually regarded Holden as a saint, albeit of an unconventional kind, and have seen the plot as an exercise in the spiritual picaresque.
(11) This has been his special skill in the second half of a picaresque 23-job managerial career after an early ascent built on sturdy, workmanlike success.
(12) Some are gossipy and gonzo, like Bob Carr’s magnificently picaresque romp through the foreign affairs portfolio published earlier this year.
(13) Kim is at once spy story, coming-of-age tale, picaresque novel, adventure and a slice of Indian society at the end of the 19th century.
(14) Two more fat tomes followed: The Scar , a picaresque maritime adventure in which the city at the heart of the book is a floating community of ships lashed together by pirates; and Iron Council , a politically charged western in which a train hijacked by revolutionaries strikes out into the unknown.
(15) After Karadžić arrived in Serbia, the picaresque tale became even more bizarre.
(16) Critical verdict Auster's career has ranged from family memoir (The Invention of Solitude) to speculative dystopia (In The Country of Last Things), picaresque magical realism (Mr Vertigo), investigations of identity (The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett) and animal fable (Timbuktu).
(17) Now read on John Irving's picaresque epics (A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp) are lighter than Grass's work, but share a similar tone (Irving studied under Grass in Vienna).
(18) The Secret History of Costaguana (2007), published this month by Bloomsbury in McLean's translation, is a humorous, picaresque novel of adventure and a knowing take on a family saga.
(19) The picaresques by which he drew self-deprecating parallels between himself and these figures were beautifully constructed.
(20) A sort of weird, sprawling picaresque epic, which starts out relatively small and gets larger.
Satiric
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Satirical
Example Sentences:
(1) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(2) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(3) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
(4) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(5) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(6) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Some recent statements on gay marriage from Ireland: "This is really a kind of a satire on marriage that is being conducted by the gay lobby.
(8) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(9) Homegrown talent Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s not much in the way of English-speaking talent, but Papi Jiang has become China’s biggest internet sensation after her satirical rants on topics of popular culture went viral on Youku (A Chinese version of YouTube) earlier this year.
(10) The satirical animus is what vibrates the molecules.
(11) Vice, folly and humbug – it is the point of satire really.
(12) So yes, it might sound far-fetched, the sort of proposal that lends itself to endless satire from the triumphalist neoliberal right.
(13) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(14) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
(15) But Oliver now seems to have accepted his fate as a satirical news anchor who covers the Trump campaign, wading into the recent phallus-based Trump news in his headlines section on Sunday night.
(16) "But I think, as comics, we need to be braver and address what's happening in the world, and in this country, with satire based on real knowledge of the political situation."
(17) We wear its many dysfunctions as a badge of honour, proudly swapping real-life stories that elsewhere in the world would belong in the realms of sci-fi or satire.
(18) In a related development, on Saturday, I was supposed to host a discussion with Roger Drew, a writer on the political satire The Thick of It , about the 2012 Leveson-inspired Goolding inquiry episode .
(19) Laughing in the face of danger: the state of satire in the Muslim world Read more “The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table.
(20) The game's co-writer Dan Houser has described it as a satire on Los Angeles, and more specifically a modern Hollywood fading into insignificance in an era of outsourced production.