Fiction organized around satire, the picaresque rogue's-progress narrative, the absurd, or a framing device that gathers many tales into one, including the maqama form. Belongs here: satirical prose and verse, the picaresque novel, absurdist narrative and the great frame-tale collections. Does not belong here: a work that is comic only incidentally within an otherwise realist narrative, which stays classed by its own dominant genre instead.
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The picaresque genre began with the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), which was published anonymously during the Spanish Golden Age because of its anticlerical content.
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